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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 aces locally. During a short period the farmer poet wrote a wealth of songs and poems. He died in Dumfries of heart disease aged 37 years.
The barrel has an attached labeled inscription of authenticity by the Poet's nephew Gilbert Burns, dated Dublin 1872.
The wooden barrel with screw lid belonged to the Poets mother Agnes Broun Burnes(1732-1820). | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1780-01-01 - 1820-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Wooden box in the shape of a barrel | Go to resource |
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