The Guardian of Scotland

This is a detail from the National Wallace Monument near Stirling.

Visited it today, not good for photographs as it was dull & overcast.

Wallace's sword was on display although it had a new hilt fitted in the 16th century.

For those who do not know, Wallace was a Scottish patriot who drove the English occupying army out of Scotland only to be betrayed and executed in London for treason to a foreign king to whom he had never sworn allegiance.