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One fact that marks the Lowland Scottish Headstone as unique is that the Headstone took almost a century to penetrate into the highlands, where the older slab and table grave markers were still being used until shortly before the 19th century. The height of 18th-century Scottish Lowland Gravestones can be anywhere between 60 cm and 100 cm.
Mortsafes at a church yard in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland. A mortsafe or mortcage was a construction designed to protect graves from disturbance, used in the United Kingdom. Resurrectionists had supplied schools of anatomy since the early 18th century. This was due to the necessity for medical students to learn anatomy by attending ...
Old Calton Cemetery, looking towards Calton Hill. The villagers of Calton, a village at the western base of Calton Hill, buried their dead at South Leith Parish Church.This was so inconvenient that, in 1718, the Society of the Incorporated Trades of Calton bought a half acre of ground at a cost of £1013 from Lord Balmerino, the feudal superior of the land, for use as a burial ground for the ...
When, in the 18th century, part of this field was amalgamated into the churchyard as vaulted tombs, the area became known as the "Covenanters' Prison". During the early days of photography in the 1840s the kirkyard was used by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson as a setting for several portraits and tableaux such as The Artist and The ...
Old parish records for burials within The Howff begin in the late 18th century. Prior to this records of mortcloth hire, a cloth rented out by the Guildry and Trades to cover bodies or coffins before burial, provide evidence of burials dating back to 1655. [3] Meetings at The Howff ceased in 1776. [1] The last burial took place in 1878 (George ...
Stone that marks the findspot "Gunnister Man's Grave" notice. The Gunnister Man is the remains of a late 17th- or early 18th-century man found by two Shetlanders in a peat bog not far from the junction of the A970 road in Gunnister, Shetland, Scotland. [1] The bog body was found on 12 May 1951 as the men were digging peat for fuel. [2]
A small bronze plaque on the east wall of the church, above a worn 17th-century flat tombstone, reads: "Tradition says that this is the grave of David Riccio 1533–1566 Transported from Holyrood." It is more likely to be a fanciful story to attach to the old but illegible stone (which may be the stone of Bishop James Ramsay or Rev George Leslie).
In the 15th century, the figures were often portrayed as angels or saints, and the chest might include a cadaver. The most refined monuments were made of alabaster. Around the 13th century, smaller two-dimensional effigies incised in plates of brass and affixed to monumental slabs of stone became popular too.