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Burns Mausoleum, DumfriesIn St Michael’s Kirkyard, a short distance from Robert Burns House, is the resting place of the poet. Initially Burns had been buried in a more modest plot in the kirkyard but on 19th September 1815, the poet’s body was exhumed and reinterred in a vault within this Greek-style temple. Keys for the Mausoleum are available from Robert Burns House, t. 01387 255297 Mural
Peter Turnerelli and Herman Cawthra The mural sculpture inside by Peter Turnerelli (and later adapted by Herman Cara) shows Burns’ muse Coila throwing her inspiring mantle over the poet at the plough |
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