When you let the apprentice do layout on a #CastIron #GraveMarker and don’t check their work before pouring metal… 😏

#oops #grave #burial #cemetery #graveyard #StElizabeths #Dundonald #CountyDown #NorthernIreland

Lovely mossy 18th century tombstone in St John's, Seaborough, Dorset. What a shame someone has strimmed the grass and wildflowers, particularly in No Mow May.

#history #gravemarker #dorset #seaborough

In the churchyard of St Mary's church, East Brent, is this stone figure, seeming to rise out of the grass. English Heritage describe it as: 'Recumbent figure of a merchant. Probably early C16. Dressed stone. Life-size effigy clad in a robe, the head resting on a woolpack, face mutilated.' Why is he out here, and not buried inside the church with all the other rich folk? Or has his effigy been moved outside for reasons unknown?

#EastBrent #somerset #churchyards #gravemarker #effigy

A nineteenth century gravestone disappears into the undergrowth at St Michael's church, Brent Knoll.

#somerset #nature #churchyards #gravemarker

A worn grave marker. Aragon, Spain. I find there's a kind of beauty to grave marker, both in it's worn and neglected state and in what you can imagine it once was.

#photography #cemetery #Headstone #GraveMarker #Aragon #Spain

In the churchyard at St Laurence's Church, Reading, is this memorial to Henry West, killed by a whirlwind at Reading station.

More about Henry here:

http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-reading-whirlwind-and-fate-of-henry.html?m=1

#reading #memorials #railways #gravemarker

In Aldeburgh Museum is the grave marker of Josef Obert, a German prisoner of war, who died on 18th November, 1918. Josef and twelve other POWs were buried in Orford churchyard, having been prisoners on Orford Ness. The vicar noted in the register, 'The above Germans, prisoners of war, died in the great epidemic of influenza which spread through the world in the year 1918'. In September 2014, Josef's grave marker was found in the sexton's shed.

#TombTuesday #gravemarker #GreatWar #suffolk

**NEW BLOG POST** A chance discovery concerning not one but two Death Penny's found in situ in Tomnahurich Cemetery, Inverness. A Death Penny is a plaque commemorating those who had fallen in WWI. Has anyone come across similar in their cemetery wanderings?

(Please see link below)

http://mortephotography.co.uk/blog.asp

#cemeterychat #cemetery #graveyard #graves #gravemarker #archaeology #WorldWarOne #WW1 #death #deathhistory #history