Newly uncovered grave marker
Sunday, 16 August 2009
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Saturday, 31 January 2009
Stobo Church gravestones
A local soldier, John Noble who died 1823 has a gravestone with a carving of him carrying his musket.
Stobo Church, Peeblesshire
The church of St Mungo (or Kentigern) at Stobo dates from the 12th century.
Saturday, 6 December 2008
Penicuik, Midlothian
Tower of St. Kentigern's Church - dating back to c 1600's near the site of an earlier church dating back to the 1100's.
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Smiling skeleton of Port Menteith
This is the happiest skeleton I have come across on a gravestone!
These carvings are on the tablestone below.
Sunday, 17 August 2008
Dirleton Church, East Lothian
The earlier church in the parish was built in the 12th Century and its ruin can be found in Gullane. Permission was given to Sir Thomas Erskine to build this new church in 1612. The reason quoted was that the old kirk "is sa incommodiouslie situat beside the sea sand that the same, with the kirk yard thereof, is continewallie overblawin with sand, that nather the Kirk servis commodiouslie for the convening of the parichiners, nor yet the kirk yard for their Burial".
Ancient gravestones at Dirleton Churchyard
This stone broken in two parts (top half shown) has an inscription in Latin with some Greek words. It is thought to be for William Ferguison and his wife Helen Smyth. probably dated c 1663.
This stone is dated 1740 and the inscription is for a Janet Seton
A Green Man carving on the west side of Janet Seton's headstone. This is a pagan symbol.
Figures appear on either side of Janet Seton's headstone. here is the detail of the one on the right side (west face). A mermaid perhaps!
This imposing mural monument is situated on the east side of the church. At the top is a coat of arms. The inscription is now unreadable but is thought to belong to the Heriot family who were important in East Lothian in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Monday, 4 August 2008
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Sunday, 6 July 2008
Edrom Church, Scottish Borders
The church dates back to Norman times though all that is left is the richly carved Romanesque doorway of the old parish church, now the entrance to a burial vault. An interesting gravestone is that of a tailor showing the tools of his trade, scissors and an iron.Saturday, 21 June 2008
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