Mining Surveyors carving, Lasswade Old Kirkyard
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Mining Surveyors carving, Lasswade Old Kirkyard
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 3 Mar 2015
Apparently unique in Scotland, this headstone was erected in 1767 by John Ross, overseer at Melville coalworks, for his wife Marion McKenzie. It shows a surveyor holding a plumb line while another supports the level on his shoulder with a clinometer between them for measuring inclines.
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