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Just a girl who likes to take walks in cemeteries. I love old churches, cathedrals, forgotten places, and cats. Lover of nature. All photos in media are my own. Alt text friendly.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · Mar 7

Spring rain in Highgate is kind of magic.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

So special. Thank you for sharing that with me !!

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

We hope so too, they really are remarkable little ornaments that are becoming rarer and rarer. Here's a wee filmed close up of one in Aberdeenshire.

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Lorraine Evans @thedeathhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 13

Delighted to announce that Burying the Dead will be released in a paperback version this coming September. Yay! 😃

Pre-orders are now available via the Pen and Sword website, or why not treat yourself to the hardback version. @penandswordbooks.bsky.social

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Burying-the-...

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Lorraine Evans @thedeathhistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Day 9: Hands #31daysofgraves From clasping hands to an angelic pointy finger, you can't really go wrong....💀😉

#graves #graveyard #cemetery #cemeterieandgraveyards #death #symbolism #archaeology #mortality #gravestone #Victorian #burialground #burial #hands

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CathyLoweBerkshire @cathylowe.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves 9 • hand

Many pairs of hands included in this imposing monument, but the smallest pairs the saddest of all.

All Saints, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire. Sir Henry Lee, d 1631.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

Gorgeous

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 2d

#31daysofgraves • Hand 🖐🏻

Er serchog gof am Martha 🪦

📍Edwardsville Cemetery 🪦

#Wales #History

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Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social · 2d

Today's #31DaysOfGraves topic is #hand
This gravestone shows a hand holding a scroll which has recorded info about those interred below. Inverted torches signify life extinguished, but also light the way to salvation in the afterlife for the soul
#Glasgow
#TaphophileThursday
#MementoMori
#cemetery

Barclay family memorial at Glasgow Necropolis.
Photo credit: Lorraine Murray

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Priscilla Scott @brudhearg.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9: Hand/s
Hearts and hands in Ettrick Churchyard where the stones are all heavily embellished with lichen in all shades.💛💛

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Turnstone Genealogy - Jane Barton @turnstonegenie.bsky.social · 1d

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 9: Hand
The gravestone of Henry Alfred Muirhead (1862-1928) bears the crest of Clan Muirhead - two hands holding aloft a sword - and the motto Auxilio Dei (By the Help of God).
#RutherglenCemetery #OPS

And I'm caught up... just in time to go away again tomorrow!

The gravestone of Henry Alfred Muirhead (1862-1928) is a large pale granite slab, with inscriptions for Henry, his wife Mary Crawford McLean, his son Andrew and his daughter-in-law Marjorie Lymburn Cowan. At the top of the stone is the crest of Clan Muirhead in a green-tinged metal.
Henry was originally from Cathcart, Renfrewshire. He established a business as a tanner and leather merchant - his son Andrew continued the business after Henry's death.
Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

The crest of Clan Muirhead - two hands holding aloft a sword - above the motto Auxilio Dei (By the Help of God), made of a greenish metal and mounted at the top of a pale grey granite gravestone marking the grave of Henry Alfred Muirhead and his family.
Clan Muirhead is believed to originate in Lanarkshire, with lands at Muirhead (Cadder parish) and at Louncope (Bothwell parish).
Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my gosh! I’ll love every one I’m sure !!!

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, #Roman tombstones really do get around - this one was rediscovered in New Orleans, after being transported across the Atlantic by unknown persons in the chaotic aftermath of WW2...

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

New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard

Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

www.theguardian.com

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

They are so pretty and delicate it’s a wonder some still survive! I hope I can see one in person someday!

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 3d

Day 8 of #31DaysOfGraves - Glass

When visiting a graveyard, have you ever wondered what these flat marble plates, reminiscent of chopping boards, are?

They're the bases of Victorian/Edwardian "Immortelles" that once held fragile memorial ornaments under a glass dome. Not many now survive intact...

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Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · 3d

#31DaysOfGraves day 8: glass. I had problems finding a suitable image for this one. I know I have a photo of some stained glass in a mausoleum somewhere on my hard disk, but where? Oh well, this one of Lucy Gallop in West Norwood cemetery, London, shows her photograph behind glass.

A monochrome photograph of a woman in a circular frame. The glass protecting the photo is held in place by a copper alloy ring. The photo is surrounded by a wreath carved in grey stone which is also within an omega shaped piece of carved stone with a key-pattern in gold around the edge, The bottom of the photo shows the plinth of the monument also with a carved decoration.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

What a beautiful lady. I love finding ones with photographs. They feel so special.

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9: Hand
Gravestone showing hand with finger pointing upwards and commmemorating a 'Dear mother' Mary Ann Greenwood, who died 9th June 1892, aged 44.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

Everytime you post I’m more and more hoping I get to visit one day!!

🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

Huge fan of the Celtic knot ! I think they are easily one of my favourites to see and no matter how much I photograph them, they always look much better in person. Something about the way light brings out the details I expect! Gorgeous

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysofGraves: Day9: Hand. Clasped hands can symbolise unity or reconnection between two people after death. We don't have many types of these at Warriston, but this celtic knot work stone is a nice example. #Edinburgh #celticknot #Warriston #taphophile

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Bruderherz @trailchaser.bsky.social · 2d

09 Hand

"Oh all these autumn leaves!"

#31DaysOfGraves

Großer Bronzeengel beugt sich über Grabstein und legt Zweig ab.

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

The patina on the angel is so so pretty !!

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🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social · 1d

I dream of seeing this one in person. Truly breathtaking!

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Remember It - Recuérdalo @recuerdalo.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysofGraves 7. #Angel.
The Angel of Grief, created by American sculptor William Wetmore Story for the #tomb of his wife Emelyn in 1894. He died in 1895 and was buried with her (Rome Non-Catholic #cemetery) #memorial #monument #taphophile #photo #foto
#photography #art #sculpture #funeraryart

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Andrea♻️ @riesenschritte.bsky.social · 2d

Day 9: Hand #31DaysOfGraves
Friedhof Wilmersdorf

Skulptur mit einer Hand hält einen kleinen Strauß mit zwei Mohnkapseln.

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