dotScot Registry · @dotscotregistry
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One of the (very) few books about #StKilda not written by an outsider. Rev Gillies handwritten jotters discovered #Canada, collected #NLS & published by #Birlinn #JohnDonald. Pics from return visit for rededication of the church.3rd pic includes Norman John Gillies, last surviving evacuee before he died in 2013. #WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2023
#worldbookday2023 #worldbookday #johndonald #birlinn #nls #canada #stkilda
Duncan Astbury · @DuncanAstbury
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The birlinn is a type of boat used especially in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland in the Middle Ages. This one is carved on a gravestone at Kilbride church, Lerags, Argyll. At the top of the mast there looks to be a beacon or torch. A lit torch represents life, immortality and the everlasting life.
#birlinn #symbolism #MementoMori #MementoMoriMonday #InMemoriam #grave #graveyard #Taphophile #blackandwhite #Photography #fuji_xseries #Kilbride #Lerags #Argyll #Scotland
#scotland #argyll #lerags #kilbride #fuji_xseries #photography #blackandwhite #taphophile #graveyard #grave #inmemoriam #mementomorimonday #mementomori #symbolism #birlinn