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i thought you guys might like these pictures , hubby & I went for a drive today & took some pictures of the old graveyard in Luss church, scotland. the earliest stones there date from the 7th or 8th century - there is even a viking mound from 1200's. this is the link to the photobucket album. it may give you some inspiration for when making your own!

What a wonderful way for us to expierence a cemetery like that....thanks to our haunt friends across the sea!

Thank You

Muffy

Wow, What terrific pictures...thank you for sharing!

Wow, great photos. Thanks for sharing.

Some unique stones there. Very cool

That's just amazing. That's one neat cemetary!
Thanks much for sharing with us. :-)

It is generous of you to share these photos, and much appreciated!

It's funny... I spent two years stationed in England. Lived in a tiny village called Littleport, not far from Ely and Cambridge. Two blocks from my house was the village church, a narrow Norman chapel with a churchyard filled with graves, some of which predated the discovery of America.

That sort of thing was everywhere in the Isles, in Scotland, Man, Ireland, Wales, England, Cornwall... It was just a fixture of the daily landscape.

Here in the States, one of our oldest preserved burial grounds is in Marblehead, Mass, a small hamlet on a jetty of land just offshore from Salem. Those are Puritan graves, the mid-1600's, complete with death-heads, laurels, winged hourglasses and scythes. When we consider old places with dread histories, that is as far back as we go in this country before exploring native american tales and beliefs.
We have old houses in our neighborhoods. You have manor homes and castles. We have old cemeteries, you have ancient burial grounds.

We may have some great Halloween stores over here, but trust us, we ghouls carry envy in our hearts for our brethen abroad in older places with longer histories.

Again, my thanks.

Wonderful pictures. Thanks for posting.

there's also this beautiful old horse drawn hearse - it's in the transport museum in glasgow.

Originally Posted by Spats

It is generous of you to share these photos, and much appreciated!

It's funny... I spent two years stationed in England. Lived in a tiny village called Littleport, not far from Ely and Cambridge. Two blocks from my house was the village church, a narrow Norman chapel with a churchyard filled with graves, some of which predated the discovery of America.

That sort of thing was everywhere in the Isles, in Scotland, Man, Ireland, Wales, England, Cornwall... It was just a fixture of the daily landscape.

Here in the States, one of our oldest preserved burial grounds is in Marblehead, Mass, a small hamlet on a jetty of land just offshore from Salem. Those are Puritan graves, the mid-1600's, complete with death-heads, laurels, winged hourglasses and scythes. When we consider old places with dread histories, that is as far back as we go in this country before exploring native american tales and beliefs.
We have old houses in our neighborhoods. You have manor homes and castles. We have old cemeteries, you have ancient burial grounds.

We may have some great Halloween stores over here, but trust us, we ghouls carry envy in our hearts for our brethen abroad in older places with longer histories.

Again, my thanks.

I'm so glad you & everyone else like them. As you say we have an amazing history here - & it's fascinating. The beauty of these old graveyards - well I just had to share them with you guys as I knew you would appreciate them.

I'm waiting for a nice day to take pics of the one in our village - it has the oldest recorded grave of a freed slave here.