Some poems state Bruce kills all the MacDougall's and makes his courageous escape where none of Lame John's men dare to follow... but the Clan remember things differently.

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One tale tells how 'the Brooch which that day beamed upon the breast of the Scottish Monarch remained a trophy in the hands of  its victors'.

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Of Robert the Bruce's many desperate encounters this ranked high, Dalrigh and Methven transformed him from a new king with a functioning army to a small band of fugitives on the run across Ranoch Moor, and their weaponry supposedly pitched into a small loch near Dalrigh to lighten the escape.

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During this fight, Robert the Bruce is supposed to have rewarded the MacAllister's in Kintyre with the gift of a charmstone for arranging boats across to Arran: this has become the Ugadale Brooch.