Glenluce Gravestones
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Image: © Mary and Angus Hogg Taken: 22 Nov 2015
The graveyard surrounding the parish church at Glenluce contains some interesting symbolic stones. The one on the left portrays man's mortality in the skull, the crossed bones and the coffin at the bottom of the stone. The hour-glass reminds the observer that his time is running out too. The side-ways placing of this symbol shows that the deceased died sooner than might be expected. However, the top of the stone portrays man's immortality, in the deceased person's winged soul flying up to heaven.