Emblems of mortality in Yarrow Kirkyard

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Emblems of mortality in Yarrow Kirkyard

Image: © Walter Baxter Taken: 18 Jan 2013

This winged skeleton holding a dart and an hourglass representing death is carved on a side panel of a tabletomb in Yarrow kirkyard. There are some good 17th and 18th century symbolic stones in the kirkyard.

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Image Location

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Latitude
55.539489
Longitude
-3.019494