Malcolm's Tower

It consists of the foundations of a rubble built, rectangular tower enclosed by an oval shaped modern wall and is protected as a scheduled monument.

[2] The tower stood on a highly defensible peninsular outcrop of rock above a deep ravine and is the site from which the city derives its name.

The first mention of the tower in the historical record is from 1070 when Malcolm III married his queen, Princess Margaret.

All that survives of the tower today are foundational fragments of wall, but an image of the building was adopted at an early date as the burgh arms for Dunfermline.

[3] The opening lines of the traditional "Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens" are thought to refer to the tower: The King sits in Dunfermling Toun Drynking the bluid-red wyne …[4]