Showing posts with label stone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stone. Show all posts

Wednesday 11 September 2013

Swaffham Parish Church - Styles

Isaac Stroulger
Died 26 October 1828
Martha Stroulger
Died  6 June 1871
Frances
Died 18 July 1883

Celtic Cross and dereliction

Monday 9 September 2013

Thursday 15 August 2013

Swaffham Parish Church - Styles

Swaffham Parish Church
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Elegant Scroll Cross
Swaffham Parish Church
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Decay and weathering
Swaffham Parish Church
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Friday 7 June 2013

Kalkara

Miss Lily A, Jackson
Died 21 October 1918
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Raymond Henery Goddard
Died 7 February 1924
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Wednesday 13 March 2013

Monday 4 February 2013

Wednesday 30 January 2013

Monday 14 January 2013

Magalithic Monuments

Cemetery Dereliction /
Cemetery management @ Swaffham Parish Church
"Among the megalithic monuments of our islands the chambered barrows hold an important place. It is well known that in the neolithic period the dead in certain parts of England were buried under mounds of not circular but elongated shape. These graves are commonest in Wiltshire and the surrounding counties of Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, and Gloucestershire. A few exist in other counties. Some contain no chamber, while others contain a structure of the megalithic type. It is with these latter that we have here to deal. Chambered long barrows are most frequent in Wiltshire, though they do occur in other counties, as, for example, Buckinghamshire, where the famous Cave of Wayland the Smith is certainly the remains of a barrow of this kind. In Derbyshire and Staffordshire a type of chambered mound does occur, but it seems uncertain from the description given whether it is round or elongated".

Title: Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
Author: T. Eric Peet (1912)