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Arthur's Seat coffin

A coffin for a wooden doll. One of the Arthur’s Seat finds, now at the National Museum of Scotland. Its purpose remains unexplained.

Arthur's Seat coffin

The little wooden figures wear stitched and glued clothing. Researchers suggest they may once have been toy soldiers.

Arthur's Seat coffin

In 1836, boys discovered seventeen miniature coffins on Arthur’s Seat. This is one of the surviving group.

Arthur's Seat coffin

The surviving eight were donated to a museum in 1901. The other nine have not come to light.

Arthur's Seat coffin

Who made them, and why? Proposed links to the Burke and Hare murders remain a theory, not an identification.

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