Cemetery Gallery

Pottery cremation urn, from a grave at Loveden Hill, Lincolnshire, Anglo-Saxon, 6th-7th century

Pottery cremation urn, from a cremation grave in a cemetery at Loveden Hill, Lincolnshire, Anglo-Saxon, 6th-7th century. The urn is decorated with deeply incised chevrons which are filled with horizontally set impressions of a stamp, producing four circular depressions perhaps made with a fragment of a bone comb. Currently in the British Museum

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Corridor in the famous Campo Santo, Genoa, Italy, c1909. Creator: Unknown

Corridor in the famous Campo Santo, Genoa, Italy, c1909. Vast marble colonnaded corridor at the Campo Santo on the hillside of Staglieno, a monumental cemetery designed by Carlo Barabino in Neo-Classical style by the late 1800s, became a popular burial place and tourist attraction by the late 1800s. To be viewed on a Sun Sculpture stereoscope made by Underwood & Underwood. [The Rose Stereograph Company, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington & London, c1909]

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Grave of the Black Dwarf, 1845. Creator: Unknown

Grave of the Black Dwarf, 1845. The headstone of ...a poor deformed creature called David Ritchie, who, when even arrived at man's estate, was only about three feet five inches in height. He was much deformed, and obtained amongst his neighbours...the nick name of " Bowed Davie". When...he died, he was found to have hoarded twenty pounds - like a canny misanthrope as he was. His demise took place, after a few days illness, in December, 1811, at the age of seventy one. He was buried in Manor churchyard [in Peeblesshire in the Scottish Borders]; a rowan-tree (mountain ash) was planted at the head of his grave - a part of it now remaining to mark the spot. Now, however, it is more effectually rescued from oblivion by a head-stone, which has been recently erected by the Messrs. W. and R. Chambers, the eminent litterateurs and publishers of Edinburgh'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII

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