A gravestone detail at Lilliesleaf
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A gravestone detail at Lilliesleaf
Image: © Walter Baxter Taken: 15 Feb 2022
This is the top part of an 18th century wall monument gravestone in an enclosure at Lilliesleaf Parish Churchyard. The portrait figure represents the deceased holding a book to show religious devotion, while the menacing figure on the left is a symbol of mortality, a crown-wearing skeleton, the King of Terrors, holding an hourglass and a dart. It was difficult to make anything out on the inscription below. There is an almost identical stone at Roberton Cemetery Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.518996
Longitude
-2.73103