"Swaffham Pillar" Detail © Godric Godricson |
"Both the rich man and the poor man die, and both are salted for the pit" [Maltese saying]
Thursday, 17 January 2013
"Swaffham Pillar" Angel
Location:
Swaffham, Norfolk, UK
"Swaffham Pillar" Detail
Labels:
Anglican,
carving,
churchyard,
stone,
Swaffham
Monday, 14 January 2013
Magalithic Monuments
Cemetery Dereliction / Cemetery management @ Swaffham Parish Church |
Title: Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
Author: T. Eric Peet (1912)
Location:
Wiltshire, UK
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
Swaffham
Labels:
cemetery,
churchyard,
Swaffham
Location:
Swaffham, Norfolk, UK
Thursday, 1 November 2012
'Deviant Burial'
"It is believed to be a 'deviant burial', where people considered the 'dangerous dead', such as vampires, were interred to prevent them rising from their graves to plague the living. "
For the full story in "The Telegraph" [ Link ]
Labels:
body snatching,
burial,
Southwell
Location:
Southwell, Nottinghamshire NG25, UK
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