In Mourning

This little male figure dressed in long coat and knee breeches is to be found on a little gravestone leaning against the Tower in Peebles graveyard. The tower is all that remains of St. Andrews Church that once stood there and that was burned by the English in 1549. However the graveyard is still in use today with the older stones mainly located close to that tower. There is no saying where this stone originally stood. Neither can we see the inscription that once was on the other side of this stone and in any case, according to Sheila A. Scott's book Peeblesshire Monumental Inscriptions -pre 1855, it could not be read anymore in her day. There is a tentative date of 1691 for it.

It's quite poignant in that this little boy seems to wiping a tear from his eyes.

I did not linger long in the graveyard as a lashing wind came down straight from the hills that felt as if it had started its journey in Siberia or the Arctic. Bone chilling! And unlike the other inhabitants of the graveyard my bones still felt it going straight through.