Memento Mori

More exploring at the weekends continues. Logie Kirk cemetery is really old - this gravestone is from 1700, but there are plenty from the 1600s, and the original kirk that was on this site was built in the early to mid 1100s.

Some of the carving on the tombstones is remarkable, and it gets really interesting looking for the symbols that show what someone's profession was (plough for a farmer, large shovel for a maltster, that kind of thing), and the others like an upside down heart meaning someone who was a true love lost too early; or an egg timer (upright the person who died was an adult, on its side the deceased was young).

It all helps you see these stones as marking people, not just bodies. 

Also dry enough to take the little old car out to blow away the cobwebs, and met a somewhat larger and muscled friend (in the extras).