Simon KnottThe Dunfermline dead. A cluster of 18th and 19th Century headstones in Dunfermline parish kirkyard, Fife. Meanwhile, over the wall...
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2/2 Here's the whole thing, with another angel and more skulls. A creature of the night holds the drapery of the inscription in its teeth.
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An angel with a skull and sheaves of corn on the 1686 memorial to Thomas Robertson in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. It was inside the church originally, but was removed in the major restoration of 1883.
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'Edward Greaves of Leigh House, Bawtry, formerly of Springfield House, Sheffield. Gentleman, died September 28th 1861 aged 55 years'
Greaves lies in an overgrown corner of Sheffield General Cemetery. A nail manufacturer and merchant, he lived at Springfield House, Glossop Road.
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John Carr, late of Dronfield, 1888, and four of his children, one of a number of 19th Century headstones laid flat in the 1970s in Sheffield General Cemetery.
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The Govan Sarcophagus, c850, recovered from the kirkyard and now in display inside Govan Old Church, Glasgow. The relief depicts a king on horseback hunting deer. It's claimed by some as the coffin of St Constantine, but the date makes this unlikely.
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'She departed this life March 13th 1845 in the 27th year of her age, ten days after the birth of an only daughter who lived twelve hours. The remains of mother and child are deposited in the vaults beneath'
Ann Crosland, 1845.
Three sad memorials at St Peter, Huddersfield. #MemorialsMonday 3/3
'She was taken to her eternal rest at the age of XXV in the first year of her marriage and on the same day she became a mother'
Anne Theodora Brackenbury, 1840.
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Quaker headstones in Ipswich Old Cemetery. They follow the Quaker practice of not naming months and days, which was thought pagan.
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'In so long period, no doubt but you may find,
To some misconduct he might be inclin'd...'
The memorial to William Tabersham, 1771 at Helions Bumpstead, Essex.
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