The Victorian City · event 2 of 7

1836

The Arthur’s Seat coffins. Boys hunting rabbits find seventeen miniature coffins with carved figures inside them in a rock recess. Nobody has ever explained them. Eight survive in the National Museum.

The The Victorian City era

  1. 1828
  2. 1836
  3. 1846
  4. 1847
  5. 1861
  6. 1890
  7. 1920

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