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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet was born in a small thatched cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire, the son of a market 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 snuff horn, together with a wealth of the Poet's artefacts and relics are on display in the Burns Cottage Museum in Alloway.
The snuff horn. with a Cairngorm stone mounted lid which belonged to the Poet. | 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: | Snuff Horn with Cairngorm Stone Mounted | Go to resource |
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