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Title
Turn-e-Bull
Date
2009
Medium
bronze
Accession number
TD9_MA_S012
Acquisition method
commissioned by the Turnbull Clan Association
Work type
Statue
Owner
Hawick Community Council
Custodian
Hawick Community Council
Work status
extant
Access
at all times
Inscription description
KING ROBERT THE BRUCE WENT HUNTING IN THE GREAT WOOD OF CALEDON / NEAR STIRLING AND NARROWLY ESCAPED WITH HIS OWN LIFE WHEN ONE OF THE GREAT WHITE BULLS RUSHED FIERCELY AT HIM, THEN A MAN OF GREAT SPIRIT LEAPT BEFORE THE KING AND, GRAPPLING WITH THE BULL, CAST IT TO THE EARTH WITH GREAT FORCE AND HELD IT THERE WHILE THE REMAINING HUNTERS SLEW IT WITH THEIR WEAPONS. THERE AFTER WILLIAM RULE THE BORDERS MAN / WHO RESCUED THE KING WAS CALLED TURN-E-BULL - HECTOR BOECE, HISTORIAN 1526; there is a poem around the base of the sculpture: his arms robust the hardy hunter, flung - around his bending horns and upward rung with withering force his neck retorted round crushed with enormous strength his bony skull, and courtiers hailed the man who turned the mighty bull - John Leyden
