Cast of the skull of Robert Burns taken when the body of Mrs Burns (Jean Armour) was interred beside her husband's remains in the Burns Mausoleum, Dumfries, 1834.
Only three casts are reputed to have been made - one in The Writers' Museum; the other two in Edinburgh University and London.
A cast, made of plaster of Paris, was taken on 31st March 1834 under the supervision of Archibald Blacklock, Surgeon, who noted in a description dated Dumfries, 1st April 1834, that 'nothing could exceed the high state of preservation in which we found the bones of the cranium, or offer a fairer opportunity of supplying what has so long been desiderated by Phrenologists - a correct model of our immortal Poet's head'.
