In Sombre Mood...

I was going to post some pictures of a Kennedy townhouse in Maybole tonight, but since my life just now seems to be revolving around Death and Mortality, I thought instead I'd bring you some of the finest late either and early nineteenth century gravestones that I've seen to date,

They're all to be found at Alloway Old Parish Church, which is of course where Tam o'Shanter saw the witches dancing that fateful night...

A farrier's resting-place, first of all, and my own personal favourite:-

 

And there are various gravestones present which have typical emblems of mortality, like skulls, hourglasses, crossed longbones, etcetera:-

 

And to end on a positive note, here's a gravestone bearing the emblem of the green man, the ancient pagan symbol of death and rebirth, which oddly enough was still featured much later in this neck of the woods, on tombstones of the late eighteenth and even early nineteenth centuries:-

 

In Sombre Mood...

I was going to post some pictures of a Kennedy townhouse in Maybole tonight, but since my life just now seems to be revolving around Death and Mortality, I thought instead I'd bring you some of the finest late either and early nineteenth century gravestones that I've seen to date,

They're all to be found at Alloway Old Parish Church, which is of course where Tam o'Shanter saw the witches dancing that fateful night...

A farrier's resting-place, first of all, and my own personal favourite:-

 

And there are various gravestones present which have typical emblems of mortality, like skulls, hourglasses, crossed longbones, etcetera:-

 

And to end on a positive note, here's a gravestone bearing the emblem of the green man, the ancient pagan symbol of death and rebirth, which oddly enough was still featured much later in this neck of the woods, on tombstones of the late eighteenth and even early nineteenth centuries:-