This Is My Glasgow

Cast iron gravemarkers, like this one in Sighthill Cemetery in Glasgow, were created towards the end of the Victorian era with the aim of making the type of highly ornamented gravestone previously only available to the very rich much more affordable and so more widely available. Many were produced by George Smith's Sun Foundry in the Port Dundas area of the city, and he held several patents for cast-iron grave markers.

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Mar 10 at 9:13amWeb
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While they never seemed to quite take off in the way Smith intended, many still exist. This is a particularly impressive surviving example, and most are much more simple affairs. While I couldn't find a foundry mark on it, it seems like the type of monument the Sun Foundry would have produced.

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