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Accession Number: 
2009.17
Title: 
branding iron
Object type: 
branding iron
Branding iron: Accession No. 2009.17
Branding iron: Accession No. 2009.17

This is a branding iron used at the now defunct St. George Hotel in Dunbar. The George Hotel, recently refurbished as flats, was a coaching inn (where stagecoaches stopped en route for Edinburgh or the south) as well as the collecting point for the mail coaches. Inscribed is 'ST G.S DUNBAR'. 

George Hotel, on Dunbar High Street, was refurbished as flats in the late 2000s, after lying vacant for a decade or more. Once it was one of the largest hotels and hostelries in Dunbar, being also the stop for stagecoaches and mail coaches.
 

Description

Accession Number: 
2009.17
Title: 
branding iron
Object type: 
branding iron

Description

metal branding iron with long, hooked handle, very rusted, inscribed on iron itself is 'ST G.S DUNBAR', small white paint marks on handle, which seems to have been longer but is uneven at end, possibly black or dark grey metal when new

Material: 
metal
Number of objects: 
1
Height (cm): 
66.30
Width (cm): 
7.30
Depth (cm): 
3.80
Date - earliest/single: 
01/01/1800 (All day)

Date - latest

01/01/1980
Date - period: 
Historical periods
Date - period: 
Modern era
Date - earliest/single certainty: 
circa

Date - latest certainty

circa

Associated

Accession Number: 
2009.17
Title: 
branding iron
Object type: 
branding iron
Object production place: 
United Kingdom
Associated date: 
01/01/1800 - 01/01/1980
Associated date certainty: 
circa

Media

Accession Number: 
2009.17
Title: 
branding iron
Object type: 
branding iron
Object has been photographed/scanned: 
Yes
Branding iron: Accession No. 2009.17
Branding iron: Accession No. 2009.17
Image on SCRAN: 
No