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Description: | Robert Burns(1759-96) Scotland's National Poet was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire and was the son of a marker gardener who feued 7 acres locally. During a short period the farmer poet composed a wealth of songs and poems. He died in Dumfries of heart disease aged only 37 years.
The pipe case is on display with many other Burns relics in the Burns Cottage Museum, Alloway.
The artefact on display which looks like a small spectacle case is in fact a pipe case which was made of part of Burns' kist. A kist is the old Scots word for a trunk or chest. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1800-01-01 - 1850-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Pipe case 'made of part of Burns' kist' | Go to resource |
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