An architect, Robert Burn, was commissioned to produce one, and Burns composed the following epitaph. The two additional stanzas were written in his Second Commonplace Book. The stanza form is ...

This is a mock epitaph for William Muir (1745-1793), a miller in Tarbolton who proved to be a good friend to the Burnes family. When Jean Armour was thrown out by her family in March 1788 it was ...

Among those displays, a Tang Dynasty (618-907) epitaph can be viewed by the public for the first time since its excavation in 1997. The epitaph, engraved on a stone stele, is a national first-class ...