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Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 10: urn

I took this photo one foggy morning in the Calton Hill cemetery, Edinburgh. For those that care, Pentax K-3iii, SMC Pentax-F 50mm f/1.7 lens.

#scotland #taphophilia #cemetery #graveyard #monument

Black and white photograph of a tall burial monument. A tall urn with two handles stands on a tall plinth with a square cross-section. In the background is a leafless winter tree and multiple other monuments including some obelisks. It is a little bit foggy.

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Eine rosa Rose @einerosarose.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysofGraves
Tag 10: Urne / Urn
Grabmalmuseum.
Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Hamburg.

Blick auf ein altes, verwittertes Grabmal. Auf einer Säule steht eine große, steinerne Urne. Im Hintergrund sind Bäume.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 4h

#31daysofgraves #11 Military
The grave of Private Henry Aley, Company E, 94th Ohio Infantry, Aley Cemetery, Beavercreek, Ohio
He enlisted 10 Jul 1862 He died, as so many soldiers did, of disease, 17 Nov 1862 Louisville, Kentucky.
"Our Brother's Grave. 21y 2m 28d"
www.findagrave.com/memorial/941...

grey tombstone showing a soldier figure in a niche.

grey tombstone showing a soldier figure in a niche. a flag is planted at the base

grey tombstone showing a soldier figure in a niche. A flag is held in a laurel leaf plaque framing a star.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 4h

#NationalChessDay
Döden spelar schack / Man Playing Chess with Death, fresco by Albertus Pictor, c. 1480-1490
Täby Church, Uppland, Sweden
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ta...
Death playing chess with Antonius Block in "The Seventh Seal". "No one escapes me."
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Man in green tunic and black hat and shoes playing chess with a cadaverous Death.

black and white still from film showing black hooded, white-faced man playing chess with blond man in chain mail.

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 9h

Correction - he died 1325 (not 1327 - note to self, don't rely on memory, CHECK)

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 9h

Day 11 of #31DaysofGraves is Military - John, Lord Hastings (d. 1327), wooden effigy in Abergavenny Priory but the stone tomb chest originally had 14 armed figures, one with a banner, probably his personal entourage

wooden effigy of mailed knight on stone tomb chest with military weeper figures

Individuated armed weeper figures on tomb chest - possibly part of a personal entourage

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LizD @bibby4.bsky.social · 10h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 11 Military: The grave of Thomas Ullock in the churchyard of St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere. It commemorates his service at the Battles of Dettingen 1743 and Fontenoy 1745.

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 9h

It's October, the shops are full of pumpkins - don't forget to sign up for the All Hallows series of FREE online lectures churchmonumentssociety.org/events/all-h... (plus a bonus, hybrid event, small fee)First lecture on Hallowe'en, deathbed and funeral rituals.

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Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 10h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 11 - Military: John Story died during the American Civil War, and although is interred in the USA, he has a large memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery #Liverpool.

The text panel commemorates John Story, born in 1842, and died in active service during the American Civil War in 1864.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 12h

A rare American Civil War memorial in Dunblane Cathedral burial ground to 'William McCowan of 6 Bat. Massachusetts Infantry who died in Camp Readville U.S. America in defence of the Union against the rebellion', 1864.

#31DaysofGraves 11: military

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Friends of Toowong Cemetery @fotc.au · 12h

I found many monument catalogues on archive.org. I used search terms like:
- monuments -- catalogs
- tombstones -- catalogs
- sepluchral monuments

I recognised many designs in these:

- archive.org/details/CoxS...
- archive.org/details/exce...

Sadly but no design for our #31DaysOfGraves flowers.

Excelsior statuary book. : Cook & Watkins. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

archive.org

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Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 10d

#31DaysOfGraves - Already two very similar but thousands of miles apart?? bsky.app/profile/fotc...
Same year?
@ohfolkthat.bsky.social @fotc.au

Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 10d

#31DaysOfGraves - flower

Let's see how many of these I can do without taking new photos.

These flowers are on the stone belonging to Captain Alfred Smith in Cupids, NL

A white marble gravestone in Cupids, Newfoundland and Labrador. There are carved flowers on the top portion of the monument. On the bottom the inscription reads:

In memory of
Capt Alfred Smith
Who died
July 22nd, 1888
Aged 80 years

There is an epitaph below this but it is difficult to make out clearly.

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 11h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 11:Military. In Restalrig kirkyard. Sebastian was born in London in 1840. His father was a French basket maker. Sebastian died from a fractured skull, caused by falls in South Saint David St, Princes St, Waterloo Place, Regent Road and London Rd. From his horse?

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 10h

Back to the Campaign for Real Advent (abstinence, penitence, no celebrating before the 24th)

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 1d

Day 10 of #31DaysOfGraves - Urn

Lichen has really claimed this urn in Kilnaughton, Islay, with its mournful epitaph below:

And you'll sometimes come and see me
Where I am lowly laid
I shall not forget you father
I shall hear when you pass
With your feet above my head
In the long and pleasant grass

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 1d

The story deepens! We now know the person who brought a #Roman tombstone to New Orleans was a US soldier stationed in Italy during WW2; I like to think that Sextus Congenius Verus - the tombstone 'owner', & a military man himself - would have understood...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Roman grave marker found in New Orleans yard left there by US soldier’s granddaughter

Erin Scott O’Brien says grandfather Charles Paddock brought back artifact with him from second world war

www.theguardian.com

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering Fred, son of John and Ellen Rothera, who died #OTD 1866, aged 17. The burial entry gives his occupation as a dyer. Fred was buried with John, former innkeeper at the Lamb Inn, Halifax, who died 1855, aged 29. Ellen, died 1869, aged 42 is also interred but not commemorated on the stone.

Headstone marking the gravesite of Fred Rothera, who died 10th October 1866, aged 17. Other burials include his father John, a former innkeeper at the Lamb Inn, Halifax who died in 1855, aged 29. Fred's mother Ellen, who died in 1869, aged 42 was also interred, but she was not commemorated on the headstone.

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Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 7 - Angel: An angel reaches down for Adriano Schiavetti (1914-1923) at Verano Monumental Cemetery/Cimitero del Verano, Rome/Roma.

A large marble monument. A statue of a young boy stands at the base of a pedestal, and a large angel leans down over him from above.

A closer view of the angel at the top of the monument.

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CathyLoweBerkshire @cathylowe.bsky.social · 1d

This decorous 1740 monument in St Mary's Turville is a fine sight in this Chilterns church - no effigies and two handsome urns; dignified and not overbearing.

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CathyLoweBerkshire @cathylowe.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves - Urn

There are many grand urn-festooned monuments within our churches, but this al fresco variety in the churchyard at Brill delights in its simplicity. Flames issue from the top!

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Wardsend Cemetery Heritage Park @wardsendcemetery.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering Corporal Horace Speight
201787 6th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 10/10/1917 aged 24
Horace is named on the family headstone in Wardsend Cemetery.
wardsendcemetery.wordpress.com/speight-hora...

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofgraves • Urn 🏺

📍St Mary's Church • Prestbury ⛪

#History

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Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

Great Elm war memorial. St. Mary Magdalene Church, Great Elm, Somerset. First World War. #LestWeForget

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Gardens Of The Silent @gardensofthesilent.bsky.social · 22h

"Rest in Peace" etched in marble, standing sentinel over the vines of the Barossa Valley.

St Johns Cemetery, Tanunda, South Australia.

© All Rights Reserved - Gardens of the Silent.

#cemetery #cemeteries #grave #graves #gravestone #graveyard #gardensofthesilent #southaustralia #photography

A black and white photograph showing a weathered, marble gravestone in a cemetery, with a vineyard in the blurred background.

The central headstone is tall, topped with a cross, and features an ornate inscription: "In Memory of Our Dear Parents Johann Carl Heinrich Fiebig Born Dec. 20th 1848 Died Nov. 4th 1922, and his wife Friedericke Wilhelmine Fiebig Born Feb. 22nd 1851 Died June 2nd 1922."

The grave is enclosed by a low metal fence, and a second, larger, rough-hewn stone cross is visible to the right. The image has a vignette and the watermark "GARDENS OF THE SILENT" in the bottom right corner.

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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 21h

Day 10, Urn: Today I've picked this gorgeous example of an urn on the grave of Caleb Smith at the Old House Cove Burial Ground, in Twillingate. This gravestone dates to 1819, a fairly early stone for NL! There are at least 2 other stones in Twillingate of this same design.
#31DaysofGraves

A limestone gravestone with 3 ridges on the top. The central image is a large urn, in the Greek style, with a cloth draped over it, suspended on either side by a carved stone ring. The inscription is partly weathered away, but you can read 'In Memory Of Caleb Smith...February 1819...Aged 7[?] Years'

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