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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lucinda Cameron

Wedding ring of Robert Burns’s wife and his socks among most viewed items online

The socks have the initials RB at the top (National Trust for Scotland/PA) -

Socks owned by Robert Burns and his wife’s wedding ring have been found to be among the most viewed items in an online portal featuring relics from his life.

The National Trust for Scotland launched the portal, which gives access to more than 2,500 items in its Burns collection, in spring last year.

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