Metal, circular handle of Robert Burns' Excise measuring chain
Key details
- Object number
- 3.8521
- Date
- 1790 to 1796
- On display
- No
- Object number
- 3.8521
- Date
- 1790 to 1796
- On display
- No
Description
Metal, circular handle of Robert Burns' Excise measuring chain.
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.
Object information
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Measurements
- Depth: 1.5(cm)
- Height: 17(cm)
- Width: 10.2(cm)
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