KnownUnknowns's video: The Unsolved Mystery of Gilmerton Cove Edinburgh s Most Highly Rated Tourist Attraction

Thanks for watching... Gilmerton Cove is a series of underground passageways and chambers hand-carved from sandstone located beneath the streets of Gilmerton, an ex-mining village, now a southeastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. A five-year collaborative project between Gilmerton Heritage Trust and The City of Edinburgh Council allowed the newly restored Cove to open in 2003 as an educational resource for the community as well as a place to visit. There are many theories about the origins of the Cove and its purpose. It is known that it was the 18th century residence of local blacksmith, George Paterson. The parish records show that he was reprimanded for allowing alcohol to be consumed within the Cove on the sabbath. It is not known whether Paterson was responsible for carving the Cove. In 1769 Thomas Pennant mentions the site in the context of Newbattle Abbey saying that "In the woods adjacent to this seat are some subterraneous (sic) apartments and passages cut out of the live rock: they seem to have been excavated by the ancient inhabitants of the country either as receptacles for their provisions, or a retreat for themselves and families in time of war, in the same manner, as Tacitus relates, as was customary with the old Germans." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilmerton_Cove http://www.gilmertoncove.org.uk/news https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/edinburgh/gilmertoncove/index.html http://www.gilmertoncove.org.uk/gilmerton http://www.gilmertoncove.org.uk/the-mystery/mysterious-gilmerton-cove Music: Aftermath - Madness Paranoia by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100575 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Some video footage and image uses in this work are under copyright license "Creative Commons CC0". Source: https://pixabay.com https://videos.pexels.com