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Malcolm III and Saint Margaret of Scotland blue plaque

Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Malcolm III and Saint Margaret of Scotland blue plaque

Malcolm Canmore's Tower. There is no historical mention of the Tower of Dunfermline until about A.D. 1070, when Malcolm Canmore and his Queen - Princess Margaret - celebrated their wedding. Dunfermline takes its name from three Celtic words - dun (a hill or fort) fearam (bent or crooked) lin, lyne o

r Line (a pool or running water). The tower was adopted at an early date for the burgh arms of Dunfermline, and old wax seals show it to have been a building of two storeys with attic about 52 feet fr

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