Aaron Greenwood Died 1st March 1848

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Hadley

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Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley (5 March 1899–17 December 1973)
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M C Died of pneumonia following wounds. 25th October 1918. Age 23. Son of W. S. Hadley (Master of Pembroke College Cambridge) and Edith his wife of The Master's Lodge Pembroke College Cambridge and at Heacham Norfolk In North-West part.
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Burial in Church

Ambrose: Selected Works and Letters 

Author: Ambrose (c.337-397)

Editor: Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)

"St. Ambrose having discovered the bodies of SS. Cosmas and Damian, a.d. 389, placed them under the right side of the altar in his basilica, and desired that he should be himself buried near them to the left, which was done a.d. 397. In the year 835 the Archbishop of Milan, Angilbert II., caused a large porphyry sarcophagus to be made in which he laid the body of St. Ambrose between the other two under the altar. In 1864 some excavations and repairs revealed in situ a magnificent sarcophagus nearly four and a half feet in length, three in width, and nearly two in height, without the covering, placed lengthwise. Further excavations brought to view two other tombs, one to the right and one to the left, lined with marble and placed east and west, not as the sarcophagus, north and south. In the one to the left were a few pieces of money, one of Flavius Victor, one of Theodosius, with some fragments of cloth of gold and other things. These were evidently the original resting-places of St. Ambrose and of SS. Cosmas and Damian, and the sarcophagus that was constructed under Lothair, a.d. 835, by Angilbert".

Unknown symbol - Heacham

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Muntjac wilderness

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This is a shot that I really like although it may need some explanation. The graveyard is way out in the countryside of Norfolk or 'Planet Norfolk' as I often think of it because the environment is like no-where else.

This graveyard is in a parish that has no population nearby. The weather was hot for England in 2012 where we have some of the wettest weather on record. The sun shone and the flies buzzed around in an aimless sort of manner. There was a faint rustling from the grasses and I suspect that this was caused by a small deer, possibly Muntjac or similar. This was a wonderful experience as wildlife creeps into the graveyard and makes a home there turning a place of the dead into a place for the living. I was frustrated that I couldn't reach the furthest edge of the graveyard although this was a small price to pay for the benefits of this wildlife reserve..