Wood cut from Robert Burns's trysting thorn

Key details

Object number: 3.4564
Date: 1800 to 1899
On display: Yes

Description

Wood cut from Robert Burns's trysting thorn.

This is a piece of the hawthorn bush reportedly cut from the trysting (meeting) place of Robert Burns and one of his sweethearts, near Mill, Mannock. Near Coylton.

Inscribed on the Wood cutting are the lines:

"At length I reached the bonnie glen,
Where early life I sported;
I passed the Mill and trysting-thorn
Where Nancy aft I courted."

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