Killin Parish Church, Graveyard Detail of recumbant slab of DC MC (Campbell), 1700: bottom part showing bell, coffin, tools and sphere Digital image of B 4082/14

Description Killin Parish Church, Graveyard Detail of recumbant slab of DC MC (Campbell), 1700: bottom part showing bell, coffin, tools and sphere Digital image of B 4082/14

Date 1988

Collection Papers of Betty Willsher, historian, St Andrews, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 803208

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 4082/14

Scope and Content Grave slab of 'D C' and 'M C', Killin Parish Church and Burial-Ground, Stirling This shows the lower part of the slab. At the top of the photograph can be seen the lower part of a pair of male and female figures, presumably the deceased couple. The lower panel shows a sphere, hourglass, bell with a handle (the 'deid' (dead) bell, which was rung at funerals), spade and turf-cutter (gravedigger's tools). All these are emblems of death and the brevity of life. The sphere on this monument may represent a globe or a bubble. The emblem of a bubble is frequently found in a type of painting known as a 'Vanitas'. These show emblems of the fragility and temporary nature of man's earthly life and pleasures, which, like a bubble, disappear in a trice. This grave slab commemorates 'D C' and 'M C', and is dated 1700. The slab is very worn, and the rest of the inscription is no longer legible. Recumbent (that is, placed on the ground) slabs are among the earliest types of grave markers. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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