The mystery of Edinburgh's miniature coffins

If you visit Edinburgh and go to the National Museum of Scotland , in one of its rooms, you can see a curious collection.It is a set of coffins between 8 and 10 cm. containing inside male figurines s each dressed in different clothes.They were found in Arthur's Seat a legendary hill near the Scottish capital Who put them there? What are they? Who do they represent? Join us to the mystery of Edinburgh's miniature coffins .

Edinburgh's miniature coffins

The hill known as Arthur's Seat is near Edinburgh and It is the repository of countless legends and traditions and to them we must add the mystery of the miniature coffins.

In 1836 children hunted rabbits in Arthur's Seat when discovered a hollow covered with boards slate .Inside they found arranged in 3 superimposed rows 17 tiny coffins carved in pine wood and with ornaments of iron and tin.In their interior an equal number of figures human completely dressed in clothes made of cotton , with the boots painted in black and in different states of servacion.The children began to play and destroyed some of the little feretros, the others kept them and apparently took them to their teacher who showed them in the Archaeological Society of the city.From then the coffins passed through several hands until they were deposited in the National Museum of Scotland.

The mystery of Edinburgh's miniature coffins

What are or who made the feretros and figures and their clothes is still a mystery today, but there are different theories:

What are a tribute to the fairies , since Arthur's Seat Hill is considered magical and is believed to be the place where Camelot was.

Which are the burial of 17 sailors who died over the years and could not be buried since their bodies were lost at sea.

That they are a tribute to the 17 victims of what s serial killers Burke and Hare acting in Edinburgh at that time.

That were part of a Satanic ritual .

The mystery of Edinburgh's miniature coffins

What is actually known from research carried out over the years is that they were possibly the work of one or two carpenters s because of the type of material and the ability to carve the coffins.It is also believed that human figures, all masculine , were previously toy soldiers carved in wood around 1780.They were dressed and deposited in the coffins around 1830 and some of them had their arms removed since they could not fit in the small sarcophagi.It is not believed that they were carved to be buried since they have their eyes open.

The mystery of Edinburgh's miniature coffins

Of the 17 original coffins, only survive 8 .Historians continue to study them and think that with modern technologies they may be able to find out more and shed light on this little mystery.What do you think they can be?

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