Showing posts with label grave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grave. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

An eviction and an exhumation

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Leather Man, New England, 19th c. (1st image, another image here ) A man of unknown identity and uncertain age was a well-known itinerant in...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Intact Celtic tomb

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An intact Celtic tomb estimated to be 2,600 years old (640-475 B.C.) has been found, but the most interesting thing is the method of excavat...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

Shaman burials

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shaman , n. [a. G. schamane , Russian sha man , a. Tungusian samân (Castren Tung. Sprachl. ). Cf. F. chaman . The Persian shemen , idol, id...
Monday, February 8, 2010

Plague pits and potter's fields

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1st image) Rikers Island inmates burying babies' caskets at Potter's Field on Hart Island, New York, 1991. 2nd image) Grave on Hart ...
Monday, August 10, 2009

Victor Noir

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The mayor of the village of Arodes on Cyprus, Greece, has called in the island's antiquities department to determine how best to preser...
Monday, June 8, 2009

Arms and legs

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Sometimes a gravestone is not what it looks like. There are a handful that mark remains - but not a complete set! The photo at the top is th...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Mortsafes

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These photographs were taken by my follower Carrie, who visited Greyfriar's Kirkyard in Edinburgh over the weekend. The wrought iron c...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Plague coffin

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Steve and I were talking about common graves the other night (yes, such a topic is not atypical at my house!). He was curious when I told hi...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Jimi Hendrix gravesite

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I also paid my respects to Jimi Hendrix while in Washington State. My sister and I listened to the classics on the way to his gravesite in...