<p>SOLD (Betty Willsher (already known to gravestoneenthusiasts as co-author of Stones: A Guide toSome Remarkable Eighteenth-CenturyGravestones) here takes a historical and interpretive approach to Scotland's graveyards. She examines their past and points out the features in them that reflect it; she guides the reader among the stones, discussing types of monument and relating each to its period; she explains the earlier symbolic carvings and analyses the changing fashions in sculpture and inscription.Her purpose is not only to inspire in the reader a fresh appreciation of the local graveyard. Scotland's graveyards arc in peril. Yearly, stones are lost, destroyed by vandals, toppled by gales, and cleared away by over-zealous tidiers. Those that are left must be conserved; they must also be described and listed before it is too late, and Mrs Willsher devotes a section of her book to explaining aspects of this urgently needed recording work.This book has been commissioned and prepared onthe initiative of the Council for British Archaeology Scotland.)</p>

Understanding Scottish graveyards: An interpretative approach

Willsher, Betty

Chambers

This study takes a historical and interpretive approach to Scotland's graveyards, examines their past and points out the features in them that reflect it. It guides the reader among the stones, discussing types of monument and relates each to its period. It also explains the earlier symbolic carvings, and analyzes the changing fashions in sculpture and inscription. The book's purpose is not only to inspire in the reader an appreciation of the local graveyard. Scotland's graveyards are in peril. Yearly, stones are lost, destroyed by vandals, toppled by gales, and cleared away by overzealous tidiers. Those that are left must be conserved; they must also be described and listed before it is too late, and Betty Willsher devotes a section of her book to explaining aspects of this urgently needed recording work.

Understanding Scottish Graveyards

History

Europe

Interlink Pub Group Inc

This is an illustrated collection of epitaphs divided into sections, such as death, resurrection, the professions and trades, eulogies and epitaphs quaint and curious. The book contains a wide range of photographs depicting the stones on which the epitaphs are carved or written. Many of the stones are artfully sculpted indicators of the fashions of past times. Some of the stones are eccentric and peculiar, but all yield insights into the society of times past. The epitaphs tell about the people buried in the churchyards: fragments of the lives and characters of pedlars and gamekeepers; and ministers and authors who may have lived in very different times, but certainly had their mortality in common with us.

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Graveyard epitaphs that capsulate the life and death of ordinary and extraordinary people and of curiosities of times past are of endless interest - the topics in this engaging book range from the standing stones and cairns of the Neolithic and Bronze ages and the early Christian graves to European traditions marking death.

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