Cramond Church, graveyard Detail of tombstone, James Spotswood, 1707
SC 560047
Description Cramond Church, graveyard Detail of tombstone, James Spotswood, 1707
Collection Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 560047
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 42909
Scope and Content Gravestone of James Spottiswode, Cramond Churchyard, Edinburgh This gravestone commemorates James Spottiswode, a farmer, who died in 1707 aged 73. Also buried here is his wife, Agnes, who died in 1675 aged 32. Sporting tusks and leaf-shaped ears, the Green Man at the top of the stone symbolises life's renewal. The cornucopia and leaf-scroll flanking the inscription are in a similar vein, expressing the hope of Paradise. The hourglass signifies human mortality. Sometimes grotesque, cat-like or human, the foliate face of the Green Man appears in many medieval churches across Britain. Only in post-Reformation Scotland does the Green Man appear as a gravestone ornament, copied from those in churches and abbeys. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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