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Detail of gravestone. Digital image of B 4315/24
SC 801006
Description Detail of gravestone. Digital image of B 4315/24
Date 1991
Collection Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 801006
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 4315/24
Scope and Content End panel of a tablestone, Walston Parish Church and Churchyard, South Lanarkshire Hanging from a pair of rings, the decorative piece of drapery bulges with skulls and bones, a vivid and immediate metaphor for death and mortality. Emblems of death and mortality like this can be read on two levels, signifying the death of the individual buried here. However they were also directed at the viewer, being a graphic reminder of their own mortality and a sign of the inevitability of death. Unfortunately nothing survives of the inscription on this tablestone which may date from the 18th or early 19th centuries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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