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View of gravestone of the McNaughton children, depicting Adam and Eve.
C 14970 CN
Description View of gravestone of the McNaughton children, depicting Adam and Eve.
Date 1993
Catalogue Number C 14970 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 794754
Scope and Content Gravestone of the McNaughton children, Kells Parish Churchyard, Dumfries and Galloway This gravestone features Adam and Eve divided by a tree with a serpent coiled around its trunk. Both figures are naïvely sculpted and wear leafy loincloths. The top of the stone is decorated with scrolled decoration and an armorial shield. The narrower lower part of the stone was once secured into the ground, and has been uplifted. Adam and Eve carvings depict either a scene in the Garden of Eden before the Fall, the moment when Eve is being tempted by the Serpent to taste the forbidden fruit, or their expulsion from the garden. In this depiction the figures stand upon bones, a skull and an hourglass, symbols of death. This gravestone commemorates the children of the McNaughton family, and dates from the early 1700s. There are three other memorials of a similar date in Kells Parish Churchyard which all depict the scene of Adam and Eve. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Colour negative
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