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Letter from William Burn to John Britton regarding the crypt at Rosslyn Chapel, Verso

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Description Letter from William Burn to John Britton regarding the crypt at Rosslyn Chapel, Verso

Date 7/1/1846

Collection Collection of papers relating to Rosslyn Chapel, Midlothian, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 2573979

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AL 39/18

Scope and Content Letter is pasted within AL 39/17. Burn describes the crypt to the east of the chapel and recounts that his excavations were unable to uncover any evidence of the barons of Rosslyn having been buried in a vault beneath the chapel, as described by Sir Walter Scott and Father Richard Augustine Hay.

Accession Number 2021/8

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2573979

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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