This Is My Glasgow · @thisismyglasgow
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Early 18th Century Gravestone in the church yard of Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow.

At a time when few people could read, gravestones tended to be covered with symbols, rather than words, designed to remind bypassers of their own mortality.

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