Photos, epitaphs & stories from Scotland's incredible historic graveyards, an oft-overlooked treasury of Scottish cultural heritage. Tweets by @AddictedToTweed
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We love an historic graveyard here at @ScottishGraves, they are a treasury of stories and tales of our cultural past still much too often overlooked. Let's celebrate them more!
Please share with us any photos of the monuments in your favourite Scottish graveyard(s) #MementoMori
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The legal action has been settled.
1. The settlement is full and final with no admission of liability.
2. The entrance siren will be deactivated within 60 days. Any future alarms will be restricted to the property boundary of the lodge house.
3. I have waived a portion of my potential legal expenses as part of the settlement agreement.
The remaining terms of the settlement are confidential.
I’ve made the decision to settle for my family. Nearly two years of legal process have been wearing. Even a successful trial would be expensive and upsetting.
Except insofar as I still need to continue to ask for donations for my remaining outstanding legal fees, I look forward to putting all of this behind me, and moving forward.
All funds raised to date have gone to paying my solicitor, and will continue to. Fundraising will end when all fees have been settled.
I hope to gradually increase the amount of time I spend working in the cemetery as all this sinks in.
The important thing is that it’s finally over. Thank you so much for your support through this, and your ongoing support. I couldn’t have done this without you.
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Day 31 of #31DaysOfGraves - Skull
Well that went fast! A whole month dedicated to the remarkable artistry and cultural inheritance to be found in Scottish graveyards
For today's "skull" entry, here's an 18th century gent contemplating mortality in Garvald Kirkyard, East Lothian
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It's the final day of #31DaysOfGraves and the theme is 'Skull'. I'll put forward this stone from Abercorn Kirkyard in West Lothian featuring not one, not two, but three skulls...
#Halloween2024
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Day 31 of #31DaysOfGraves is Skull. This example is from St Cuthbert's Kirkyard, Edinburgh
I dont know who this decorative stone is for due to algae/lichen/moss growth, something quite common in older graves.
This could have ticked the damaged /colour / scrollwork days too! – at Edinburgh, Scotland
ALT Grave from St Cuthberts Cemetery in Edinburgh. C.18th C Memento Mori, skull, scrollwork, swags, angel motifs
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Day 30 of #31DaysOfGraves is scrollwork
This decorative grave for the Macbeth family has not only that, but garlands, festoons, and sculptural figures, too.
Located in @CathcartCem, Glasgow – at Glasgow, Scotland
ALT Macbeth family plot in Cathcart Cemetery
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Day 30 of #31DaysOfGraves - Scrollwork
We were spoilt for choice again looking for today's image from a Scottish kirkyard. In the end we chose these wonderful graveslabs, packed with ornate carved scrollwork, from Kilmartin, Argyll.
Note how they were reused in later centuries.
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#31DaysofGraves Day 30: Scrollwork. Hand holding scroll on gravestone of Gabriel Finlay, in Buchanan churchyard, Stirlingshire. He was a joiner, born in Greenock and died of Diabetes Mellitis at Balmaha. His wife Lucy and their infant granddaughter are also remembered.
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Day 30, scroll work, Finlayson mural in the nave at Dunblane Cathedral. Isabella was the last person buried here before the restoration. Robert Rowand Anderson had a hand in this design. #31daysofgraves @welovehistory #cathedral
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Day 29 of #31DaysOfGraves - Old
This is the beautiful 11th century, Viking-era "Hogback" stone located in Luss Kirkyard in Argyll
It was carved to look like a building, with shingles on the roof and rows of arcaded arches on either side. A truly remarkable piece of medieval art
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#31DaysOfGraves Day 29 - Old This Pictish symbol stone was discovered in 1880, incorporated into St Clement's Parish Church in Dingwall as a lintel above a doorway. It now stands in the churchyard.
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#31DaysOfGraves Day 29: Old. Gravestone of Duncan Kippen in @crieffcemetery. He didn’t quite make his century. @BNArchive
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Day 29 Old. Founder of Dunblane Cathedral, Dominican friar, Bishop Clement d 1258. Are his bones here? The graveyard tour by Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral may shed a light 😉#31daysofgraves @welovehistory #Cathedral
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Today's the feast day of St Kennara, a 4thC female hermit reputed to have lived in Galloway before travelling to Rhineland where she may've been martyred as a follower of St Ursula.
A monastic site was likely raised on her hermitage at Kirkinner, where the 1828 church sits (1/3)
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One of the medieval grave-slabs now incorporated into the outer walls of the parish kirk in Strachur Argyllshire. Date uncertain, but the style is said to suggest 13/14c. #31DaysOfGraves Day 29 Old
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Day 29 of #31DaysOfGraves is #old
I'm thinking it will be impossible to find older examples of a headstone or hogback anywhere else in, or near Glasgow apart from The Govan Stones at the old parish Church.
Go visit this week before they close!
thegovanstones.org.uk/ – at Glasgow, Scotland
ALT View of Govan parish churchyard
ALT Headstone or footstool from Govan old parish churchyard
ALT Hogbacks from Govan old parish churchyard, now on display in the church
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#31DaysOfGraves Day 28: Died elsewhere. “Far, far from Scotland of the mist and storm”. In the British cemetery in Funchal, Madeira, lie Scots, from Alloa, Kilmarnock, Edinburgh and Auchterarder, who died far from home. Photos from 2016. Quote from Neil Munro-To Exiles.
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Day 28 of #31DaysOfGraves is 'died elsewhere'.
The grave of brothers Jack & James Turnbull from Cathcart Cemetery has an angel holding a cross. Jack died in France of wounds received during #WW1 in 1918, while his older brother James died in 1921 of an illness contracted there – at Glasgow, Scotland
ALT Angels used on gravestones or as figurines on top are usually found on the graves of children or younger people, for example, when parents outlive their child. Angels are often shown pointing towards heaven or gesturing in some way as an act of compassion. In this example, the grave was for the two sons of Robert Turnbull and his wife Elizabeth Mathers, who outlived their sons.
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Day 27 of #31DaysOfGraves - Inside
Most graves of fallen soldiers during World War One were marked with temporary wooden memorials, then replaced after the war by the stone markers of the @CWGC.
Some of those original memorials were sent home to the families of the fallen (1/3)
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Fabulous guided tour of Glasgow Cathedral with @GlasgowCthdrl and @ArchScot
Bishop Leighton came to Garrion Tower his holidays, fantastic medieval grave, stepped base and shaft, top unclear. @GlasgowCoA
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Day 27 - inside. Keir memorial designed by Robert Rowand Anderson. Lots of Stirlings were buried in this section of the nave, both pre and post reformation. A rather fabulous piece of Scottish Baroque! Dunblane Cathedral. #31DaysOfGraves @welovehistory #cathedral
