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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New-York Bay, from Greenwood Cemetery, 1874. Creator: William Hamilton Gibson

New-York Bay, from Greenwood Cemetery, 1874. View of the cemetery with ships in the distance, Brooklyn, New York State, USA. Within the precincts of Brooklyn, on what were once called Gowanus Heights, is Greenwood, the handsomest cemetery, probably, in the world. It is over four hundred acres in extent, beautiful, undulating, covered with ancient trees of many kinds, and varied with several lakes - a very rural paradise in its natural attractions, while art and pious devotion have graced it with many noble monuments'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]

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Bunhill Fields Burial-Ground, c1872. Creator: Unknown

Bunhill Fields Burial-Ground, c1872. Bunhill Fields in Finsbury, London, was used as a burial ground from 1665 until 1854. It was nondenominational, and notable graves include those of writers artists such as John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe and William Blake. In 1852, the Burial Act enabled burial grounds to be closed once they became full. From Old and New London, Vol. II: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]

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