Post your pictures of Gravestones and Cemeteries - old and new

[fotoi]

Husband and Wife in a church, Brugge, Belgium. And dog and lion.

 

[Jack Dawe]

Bronze Age cist at Merrivale on Dartmoor (c.3,000 years old). The capstone was split by a nineteenth-century farmer who didn't realise its significance. Archaeologists say that the tomb must have held someone important.

 

[fotoi]

The Friedhof (cemetery), in Grein, Austria.

 

[greatgrandma]

Cemetery at Terre-de-Haut - Îles des Saintes

Entrance to the cemetery

Bob and I got out and took over 100 photos. I observed that they used conch shells as edging

Conch shells around a grave

Cemetery main 'street'


I could not go off the main path so I just went down to the end where there was a

Memoire des Marins


Bob observed that they used artificial turf over the sand.

 

[fotoi]

Aschfeld, Germany.

 

[Jack Dawe]

Site of King Arthur's tomb - allegedly - at Glastonbury Abbey. The legend of King Arthur was given prominence by Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the King's of Britain, written c.1136. In 1184 Glastonbury Abbey suffered a major fire that destroyed many of the buildings. The discovery of the bodies of King Arthur and his queen seven years later and the potential income to be made from this is generally considered to be too coincidental to be credible.

 

[fotoi]

Bergen, Norway.

 

[greatgrandma]

In Helsinki, the excursion guide pointed out a cemetery where one part was Russian Orthodox (where the crosses had three cross pieces - one at the top, a longer one a little lower, and a slanted one down near the bottom),

Russian Orthodox cemetery

and one part was Lutheran where there were no free standing crosses. (photos taken from the bus)

 

[fotoi]

Under the High Altar of the Cathedral of Toledo, Spain, a space that has been closed for four centuries was opened to the public: the central crypt in which the remains of Saint Ursula are kept. (Note: I have read the remains are actually in Koln, Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_St._Ursula,_Cologne).

 

[Capn Jack]

Ming Tombs

JAK_1505 by Jack Silver, on Flickr

 

[fotoi]

Pantheon, Paris. Jean Jaurès https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Jaurès

 

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A monastery in Crete

 

[fotoi]

The tomb of Issac Newton in Westminster Abbey, London.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Ziegel's Church Weisenberg PA

 

[fotoi]

Catacombs, Paris.