#old burial ground

[swforester]

The soul in flight-

Old Center Cemetery

The soul crowned. Suffield CT 2016

[mass-monumentalist]

Old Burial Ground Deerfield, MA

[extinctionblues]

fallen/displaced

Ludlow MA 2024

[capecodadventurepictures]

Gravestones in Boylston 06/15/23

[thesehauntedhills]

Salem, Massachusetts

Where Giles Cory was crushed to death in execution for witchcraft.

[vamprlestat]

design for the track ‘fall for me’ by sleep token | whale fall | from here to eternity, caitlin doughty | midtnight mass, mike flanagan | the amber spyglass, philip pullman

[timmurleyart]

Old burial ground in beautiful Rockport. 🪦🍃🌞

[blueiscoool]

A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Sanctuary and Burial Ground Uncovered in France

Empty tombs where skeletons had long since dissolved. A ditch where devoted offerings deteriorated. Traces of the Roman empire’s rule over western France echoing through the ages.

These traces of faded glory reemerged as archaeologists excavated an area of La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz, the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research said in an April 4 news release.

La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz is a small city near Rennes and about 210 miles southwest of Paris. Rennes was established by the Roman empire around the end of the first century B.C., French officials reported in an archaeological atlas for the area.

Archaeologists found evidence of an important Roman occupation site at La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz, the release said. The ruins included a sanctuary, thermal bathhouse and burial ground.

The roughly 2,000-year-old sanctuary was dedicated to Mars, the Roman god of war, and built at the start of the Roman period, experts said. A statue of Mars and numerous weapons, such as swords and spearheads, were unearthed at the sanctuary. The weapons were likely left as offerings by devoted soldiers.

The nearby thermal bathhouse was a wooden, public building, archaeologists said. Everyday objects, such as pottery, were buried there.

A short distance away, archaeologists located a burial ground, or necropolis, a relatively unexpected find, the release said. The burial ground had 40 tombs. Photos show a few of these long, rectangular graves.

The necropolis was about 1,500 years old and used during the third and fourth centuries, experts said. By the fourth century, the entire site was abandoned.

No skeletons were found at the necropolis, archaeologists said. The bones had dissolved in the acidic soil, but traces of the occupants lingered in the form of grave goods.

The studded soles of a pair of shoes were unearthed in one tomb, experts said and photos show. Another person was buried with glass and ceramic vases. Someone else’s tomb had rich items, including silver bracelets, pins and belt buckles. In another grave, a dagger and parts of a horse harness were unearthed.

After excavating the site, archaeologists did an inventory of their finds and took the items to a laboratory for further study, the release said. All told, they found seven pieces of terracotta architectural elements, 35 pieces of pottery, 12 iron swords, 4 billhooks, a sickle and over 700 other artifacts.

About half of the ancient weapons were found at a ditch near the sanctuary, and the other half were found at the burial grounds.

The metal finds will require special treatment for preservation, the study said. Research on the artifacts is ongoing.

By ASPEN PFLUGHOEFT.

[scotianostra]

I pride myself in knowing my Scottish history, and especially Edinburgh, not boasting but among my friends on Facebook  I know more than average, Alistair Dawson and Mark McDonald are up there with me, and then there is the main man  in the first pic here, Colin Cargill. Colin took me for lunch on Monday, Haggis Neeps and Tatties at the Guildford Arms, it was delicious. We took a wee walk after to Old Calton Burial Ground on Waterloo Place, that's the one you see when crossing North Bridge, with the obelisk that is The Martyrs Monument, which remembers Scots who  strived for political reform in the 18th century. Anyway, Colin told me the history of the graveyard, after the part of Edinburgh we know as the New Town was built you still had to go through slum areas on the Canongate and High Street to get there, this was until they built a road, which ran/runs from Portobello, London Road. This  now splits at Montrose Terrace going up Regent Road to what is now Waterloo Place, they had a problem here as the graveyard barred their way to Princes Street. They solved this by building the road right through it in 1818. Don;t worry the graves on that part were dug up and moved down Regent Road to a "new" site,  now known as New Calton Burial Ground. Now until Monday it amazes me that I did not know that on the other side of Waterloo Place, next to Howies restaurant is a small part of Old Calton Burial Ground, I can't for the life of me know how I missed this, having more or less walked past the gates on Calton Hill, literary hundreds of times, the entrance is tucked between the rear of Howies and The Parliament House hotel. It's the wee road that comes out at Calton Road/Leith Street is, The Black Bull pub sits there. So it shows that coming up for 58 years old I am still learning things about the city I love. Colin is a guide on the Tour buses you see around Edinburgh, one of the few with a live guide, rather than a recording and headphones. He is also involved with Edinburgh World Heritage an independent charity that aims to ensure the city's World Heritage  status benefits everyone. Colin has also guided tours through Greyfriars Kirkyard, working closely with, now correct me if I wrong Colin, Dr Susan Buckham Graveyards Project Manager with the charity. Colin has invited me to jump on the tour bus with him sometime in the spring, I look forward to doing so and grabbing pics from a perspective I would not normally enjoy.

[marcusdoodlesalot]

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Very curious if this is a common experience (only answer skeleton if the first 3 don't apply)

[endawn]

the falcos would not eat meat which came from birds. which, considering their ability to speak with them and many having bird companions, is not entirely surprising. other noble families would have to accommodate for this and have no such dishes present at soirées and other parties they invited them to. the falcos considered it a great disrespect if they were served chicken, goose, duck, turkey, etc…

[swforester]

West Granville Cemetery 10/30/24

[mass-monumentalist]

Old Burial Ground Deerfield, MA

[extinctionblues]

Arlington VT 2024

[capecodadventurepictures]

Gravestones in Sandwich 09/26/23

[rebeccathenaturalist]

I'm working on clearing out some old tabs, and ran across this piece from last fall. The short version is that your gut microbiome and other microbes that accompany you in a series of symbiotic relationships throughout your lifetime persist even after you die. While you might assume that these bacteria and other little beings would perish along with you once you're no longer warm and living, it turns out that they shift gears upon your death, being part of the massive effort to return your remains en masse to the nutrient cycle.

There's honestly something rather poetic about that. Here you've spent a lifetime being the center of a holobiont--a sort of miniature, migratory ecosystem. And these many millions of life forms that you have given safe harbor to for thousands upon thousands of their generations are among the funerary vanguard caring for your remains after you're gone. They pour forth from their ancestral lands--the gut, the skin, and other discrete places--and spread out through even the most protected regions of your form.

And then, just as you constructed your body, molecule by molecule, from a lifetime of nutrients you consumed, so do these microbes go through the process of returning everything you borrowed back to the wider cycles of food and growth and life and death. The ancient halls where their ancestors lived in relative stability are now taken apart in the open air, and their descendants will disperse their inheritance into the soil and the water through the perpetual process of decomposition.

I've always wanted a green burial, and I find it comforting that when my remains are laid in the ground, they'll be accompanied by the tiny ecosystems I spent a lifetime tending, and who will return the favor by sending my molecules off in a billion new directions.