Re: Rosslyn Chapel

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

At 11:50 21/04/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear All,
>Can anyone please provide any update on the vaults under the chapel and any
>plans to open them up?
>David Sinclair


There is no immediate intention to open the vaults at Rosslyn Chapel 
because (a) approval
would have to be given by Historic Scotland and (b) the timing has to be 
right because these
are no ordinary vaults.

I had permission to enter and film in the vaults but access was too 
difficult so I contented
myself by carrying out three separate sonar surveys (one of them under the 
aegis of Edinburgh
University) and by involving well-known and respected 
dowsers.  Non-invasive techniques are
being constantly improved and it is through these methods, rather than 
physical entry of the
vaults, that our knowledge of the contents of the vaults will be 
confirmed.   This will certainly
include a Black Madonna.

Niven Sinclair

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