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  2. Funerary art in Puritan New England - Wikipedia

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    Winged death headstone carved by the unknown "Old Stone Cutter of Charlestown" Granary, Boston. 17th century. The death's head is the earliest and most frequently occurring motif in colonial-era American headstones. The head usually is winged, and accompanied by imagery such as hourglasses, bones and coffins. [33]

  3. Gravestone - Wikipedia

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    The stele (plural: stelae), as it is called in an archaeological context, is one of the oldest forms of funerary art.Originally, a tombstone was the stone lid of a stone coffin, or the coffin itself, and a gravestone was the stone slab (or ledger stone) that was laid flat over a grave.

  4. Scottish gravestones - Wikipedia

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    The 19th century saw almost all memorial permutations of the past come back with gusto. Wall monuments, crypts, headstones, table and slab stones and even replica Hog Backs were all common designs in Victorian Scotland. The introduction of the Cast-Iron Grave Marker would simply add yet another embellishment to an already decorative art form.

  5. Uncovering Biddeford through centuries-old headstones

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    Oct. 2—BIDDEFORD POOL — The slate headstone rests alone in the grass, its markings faded and edges rounded by time. "Here lyes the body of Sarah Brown aged 65 years," it reads. "July 16th, 1726."

  6. Sacramento’s earliest cemetery is now the site of a school ...

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    A broken headstone that was brought to Old City Cemetery earlier in 2023. A worker had found it at a job site in East Sacramento. Lori Bauder, the city’s cemetery manager, would like to find ...

  7. Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    A small number of slate markers, most featuring deaths head designs were also shipped in from the Boston region. In the 1790s, Samuel Galpin moved to Wethersfield and became the town's first grave carver.

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