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Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 560723
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/560723
Some interesting funerary monuments can still be seen in the burial-ground attached to Smailholm Parish Church.
The earliest visible monuments are two seventeenth-century table tombs, so-called because they consist of a flat slab supported by stone 'legs' at each corner. The faces of the slabs carry commemorative inscriptions, which on these examples are no longer decipherable.
Another grave-marker of note is an early eighteenth-century memorial to James Mackdowal. It bears a carving of a winged cherub, representing the soul on its journey to heaven, and is accompanied by the words 'Memento Mori', which means 'Remember that you will die'. According to the inscription, Mackdowal had reached the respectable age of seventy-one years before his death on 24 December, 1704.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
