Burial Practices

lynn roebuck photography says: The Waverley Cemetery is located on top of the cliffs at Bronte, Sydney, Australia. Opened in 1877 it contains many Victorian and Edwardian monuments.

Waverly Cemetary, Sydney (#118) by Christopher Chan

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lynn roebuck photography says: Part of the group of six rock-cut tombs. 8th Century, St. Patrick's Chapel, Heysham, Lancashire, England.

Rock cut graves by Eddie Dowds

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lynn roebuck photography says: Anund's Mound, Double stone ship at Anund's mound, total length100 metres.

Anundshög by Britt-Marie Sohlström

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lynn roebuck photography says: Megalithic tomb, Passage grave, Newgrange, Co., Meath, Ireland. (2500 BC) The passage grave art motifs are referred to as spirals, lozenges, chevrons, circles, dots-in-circles, radials and cup marks.

Entrance stone by catb -

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lynn roebuck photography says: The Hardy Tree, ashtree (Fraxinus excelsior) , St. Pancras Churchyard. London. During the 1860s the Midland Railwayline was being built over part of the original St. Pancras Churchyard. Thomas Hardy supervise the exhumation of human remains and the dismantling of tombs from the land on which the railway was being built.

The Hardy Tree by Richardr

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lynn roebuck photography says: St Thomas the Martyr's, a Church of England church of the Anglo-Catholic tradition, in Oxford, England.

Wing Thee to Thy Rest by Richardr

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lynn roebuck photography says: The Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng, South Africa

Making Every Drop Count by reflectionsofthenorth

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lynn roebuck photography says: Old Indian Cemetery, Muskegon, Michigan. This cemetery was established before the first settlers came to this area.

Old Indian Cemetery Boulder by Brandon Bartoszek

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lynn roebuck photography says: Etowah Indian Mounds, Cartersville, Georgia, 1000 A.D. to 1550 A.D.

Three Levels by Kendrick Shackleford

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lynn roebuck photography says: Triangular (comb) graves, Long Cemetery, McMinnville, Tennessee

Tent City of the Dead by Don

lynn roebuck photography says: Triangular crosses grave markers in the graveyard of Ruhnu. Estonian small islands (Ruhnu island)

Ruhnu graveyard crosses by Hansken

lynn roebuck photography says: The Rök Stone - The rune stone covered with nearly 750 runes. A man named Varin erected it in honour of his dead son's memory in the 9th century.

Rune stone Rökstenen (Rök Stone), Östergötland, Sweden by Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet

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