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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire. During a short period the farmer poet composed a wealth of songs and poems. In 1788 wearied of his arduous life on the land as a farmer he took up the position of an excise officer..
The handle of the measuring chain is on display in Burns Cottage Museum in Alloway along with a number of excise relics and documents belonging to Burns. The handle was donated to the museum by a Mr. Geo. H. Ferguson who was presented it by James Glencairn Burns Thomson, the poet's grandson.
On display is the metal handle of the measuring chain that Burns used as part of his excise duties. The work as an excise officer was a hard and exacting one, Burns often travelling up to two hundred miles a week on horseback in all kinds of weather. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1780-01-01 - 1796-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Handle of Burns' Excise Measuring Chain | Go to resource |
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