Something very unusual can be found in a stereotypical and
unexceptional street at the suburb of Gilmerton in Edinburgh ,
Scotland 16 Drum Street ,
opposite a bingo hall, is the hidden entrance to Gilmerton Cove, an underworld
of artificial caverns which are shrouded in mystery, see: http://www.gilmertoncove.org.uk/.
The entrance leads to a series of passageways and chambers that were hand-carved
many centuries ago, at least; their ceilings are about ten feet deep. They have
been used as storerooms, a brothel, an illicit whisky distillery and many other
purposes over the years, like the caves in Nottingham ,
see links below. Nobody knows who constructed them except rumours that they're
the work of a man called George Paterson who ran a smithy there in the early
18th century. However the Cove is too large and elaborate to be the work of a
single individual. Also there are stories that they are far older than Paterson 's
time. They may have been built as a refuge during the "Killing Time",
a brutal civil war sparked off by the rebellion of the Covenanters, a group of
people belonging to Protestant nonconformist churches, against King Charles II.
They had to go into hiding or face being imprisoned and killed. Was Gilmerton
Cove a place in which an underground, literally, Covenanter cell founded a
safe-house? This took place over a hundred years before the life of George
Paterson which would put the date of construction for the Cove back to at least
the early 17th century. Maybe it's even older than that; engravings and
graffiti on the chiselled walls of the Cove contain Masonic and esoteric
symbolism, and it was indeed rumoured to have been used by Freemasons and the
Hellfire Club more recently, see links below. Could it actually be a much more
ancient sanctuary for secret societies like the Freemasons and Knights Templar?
In 2002 archaeologists excavated a new section of the Cove in which they
discovered a bricked up tunnel. The local authorities would not grant
permission for this blockage to be removed because it lay directly beneath the
road and they were afraid heavy vehicles driving above could cause the tunnel
to collapse... or at least that's their story. However the initial direction of
the tunnel can be ascertained and it points south. About five miles south of
Gilmerton lies Rosslyn Chapel, one of the most enigmatic and fascinating
buildings on Earth; it is one of the locations nominated as the resting place
of the Holy Grail. Does this mean that that there is a subterranean link
between Gilmerton Cove and Rosslyn Chapel? Only further study will tell. There
are certainly underground chambers beneath the Chapel and many explorers have
tried to chart them... some never came out again. One thing which makes
Gilmerton Cove unique is that incorporated into its architecture are carvings
that serve as furniture. These resemble benches and tables, indicating that the
chambers were originally intended to be dwelling places for people; however a
few of the adaptations serve no obvious purpose, like a four to five pint hemispherical
depression on one of the benches known as the "punchbowl". This might
have been a baptismal font or intended for use in some rituals if the
Freemasons and Knights Templar were there. Gilmerton Cove is just one of a
number of similar locations such and Petra and Derinkuyu in Turkey, and
Nottingham in England, where for some reason people decided to build very
complex and extensive underground spaces, sometimes as large as the city above
them, often leaving no records as to who built them or when they built them; or
why. New ones are being discovered all the time, and it's quite likely that
what has so far been unearthed is a mere fraction of the complete covert
underworld, unimaginable secrets that may lie just a short distance beneath
your feet.
See here for more
information: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/hell-fire-caves.html.
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