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Museum on the Mound

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Museum on the Mound
The museum is located in the Bank of Scotland head office, Edinburgh
Location of the museum in Edinburgh
LocationThe Mound, Edinburgh
Coordinates55°57′01″N 3°11′36″W / 55.95028°N 3.19333°W / 55.95028; -3.19333
TypeNumismatics museum
CollectionsBanknotes of Scotland, Scottish coinage, economics
Visitors50,000
OwnerBank of Scotland
Public transit accessEdinburgh Trams Princes Street
National Rail Edinburgh Waverley
Websitemuseumonthemound.com

The Museum on the Mound is a museum in Edinburgh, Scotland, that focuses on money, coinage and economics. It is located in the Bank of Scotland Head Office building (latterly part of HBOS and now part of Lloyds Banking Group) on The Mound. It has more than 50,000 visitors per year.[1]

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Hey guys, Praveen here. This is a rare view of what is inside a burial mound which was built about 1500 years ago. We are inside the Museum in Kolomoki Mounds, Georgia and you can see the skeletons of ancient Mound builders and let me show you the outside of the museum so you can understand what is going on here. This is the mound from the outside and the museum building has a part of it. They excavated the mound and we are looking inside an ancient Mound. Here you can see the layout of how a mound looks. A deep ditch in the center and the skeletons of mound builders in different places. You can see one skeleton here, a skull there. Another skeleton here and another skull there. I will explain the skulls without bodies in a minute. But, my first reaction after seeing this was to immediately go to the front desk and I asked them if they are the original skeletons. If they are, we can find the measurements and finally confirm that the mound builders were giants who stood over 7 feet tall. But guess what, all the original mound builder skeletons have been taken to the Smithsonian institution and what we see are just models - Not built to scale. So the mound is real, we are actually looking into a 1500 year old mound, the rocks, the dirt, everything is real except the skeletons. For some strange reason, they have chosen to take the skeletons to Washington D.C which seems to be the repository for all mound builder skeletons. It is disappointing to learn that, but in my visit to over dozens of mounds in different states, this is the only museum that offers a look inside a mound. Now, inside the ditch in the center, you can see one skeleton. You can only see a very small portion of it and the legs are not even shown, as though they are still in the dirt. He was the Giant leader who passed away and this is why this burial mound was built. But you may ask, if it was built solely for burying the leader, what about the other skeletons and skulls. Human sacrifice. The rest of the bodies were all killed and buried along with the Giant. I am not making this up; these are official signs that say as a ceremony, 2 women were strangulated. The skulls belong to the strangulated women. Let's read the archaeologist's report here: Sears described a burial in Mound D that contained five males and two females. He believed seven people were retainers to the chief or spiritual leader. So the skulls belong to the females and the complete skeletons belong to the five men who were sacrificed for the Giant. Here it says, "Their sacrifice at the burial of the PARAMOUNT individual implies that they stood in a socially and ritually subservient position to the PARAMOUNT individual in the society which constructed Mound D" - William Sears 1956. He used the word paramount twice to describe the giant leader which etymologically means one who stood tall. This is probably how the scene looked. Led by the new priest-chief, the people formed a procession, bearing the deceased leader on a log litter. Two females, (perhaps his wives) followed, prepared to sacrifice their lives. Other males for sacrifice walked behind them, leading people carrying vessels, bones, heads, and ashes. This is also the first time, I have seen official signs that explicitly mention human sacrifice, and you won't find this anywhere in History books. This is what separates the Giant mound builders from other Native American tribes. Throughout the history of Native American tribes, they helped each other when in drought, when in need. But the Mound Builders not only looked different but they acted differently. They practiced Human sacrifice, cannibalism and took other tribes as slaves. This is why many authors think they are Nephilim or Fallen angels, because they did evil things. They were feared by other tribes and were a dominant force that built these huge mounds. This view also gives us a good understanding of how the mounds are built. Most people think that mounds are just a pile of dirt, but you can see an arrangement of rocks all over the mound. These rocks were carefully placed along with clay to make it last forever. Understand, if the mounds were just built from dirt, they would have been washed off by now, and won't last for centuries. The rocks excavated from the mound are stacked outside and there are burn marks on all of them. These burnt rocks is also a common feature and found in mounds of Illinois, and Ohio confirming that it was the same people who built these mounds. Please do subscribe for updates. Thank you for watching and talk to you soon.

History

The Bank of Scotland Head Office building is a large Baroque Revival building topped with a dome which sits at the top of The Mound. The original building was designed in the Palladian style by Richard Crichton and Robert Reid and erected 1801–6, later altered by David Bryce in 1863 and by Peddie and Kinnear in 1878. Because of its location on a steep slope, it has an extensive basement area, part of which now houses the Museum on the Mound.[2]

Prior to 2006, a small museum display existed in a single basement room, but entry was by appointment only. This museum was originally opened in 1986 by the author Ian Rankin.[1] The Museum on the Mound opened in September 2006.[3]

In 2017, Lloyds Banking Group announced that the Museum on the Mound would close at the end of that year.[1] Following a public outcry, the decision was reversed and the museum will now remain open.[4]

Exhibits

The permanent collection includes artefacts tracing the history of the Bank of Scotland since its foundation in 1695, paintings and architectural models of the Head Office building on the Mound, and the history of banking and building societies in Britain. There are also exhibits related to the history of numismatics, including artefacts historically used for barter, ancient tokens dating back as early as the early 12th century,[5] Scottish coinage and paper money. Because the Bank of Scotland has a history of issuing its own banknotes—a right it has retained to this day—the collection includes a number of historic Scottish banknotes. There is also a Bank of England £1 million note displayed as an example of the high-denomination notes used to back banknotes issued by Scottish banks.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Miller, Phil (14 October 2017). "Anger as bank's Museum on the Mound to close at end of year". The Herald. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  2. ^ "11 BANK STREET, BANK OF SCOTLAND WITH RETAINING WALL, GATEPIERS, GATES, RAILINGS AND LAMP STANDARDS". Historic Environment Scotland. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  3. ^ Scott, Kirsty (12 October 2011). "10 of the best museums and galleries in Edinburgh". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  4. ^ King, Diane (3 November 2017). "Historic banking museum on the Mound to remain open". The Scotsman. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Bank of Scotland 'Museum on the Mound' Edinburgh". 24 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Displays". Museum on the Mound. Bank of Scotland. Retrieved 11 April 2018.

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