http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/Death%20head%20Mass.%20gravestone.bmp
Has anyone IN ENGLAND (that's England, in the UK) Seen a death's head similar to this on a gravestone? If so, which cemetery?
Anonymous
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Yes I have, The closed cemetry in Dolvin Rd Tavistock Devon, no wings though.
What do you think of these ones from Anwoth in Scotland?
http://www.wicker-man.com/locations_anwoth.php
charcinders
There is a really strange one in St. Aidan's churchyard, Billinge, Lancashire. It is a flat coffin-shaped stone with a death's head surrounded by a snake biting its tail, and underneath there is a pair of bat wings!
Here it is:
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn2/Finbarpics/1%20Local%20History%20etc%202008/BillingeChurch4.jpg
Anonymous
It looks like a Masonic grave.
They are not uncommon. That's a nicely preserved example.
Padua
Not personally but a quick Google reveals some, e.g.
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_a_l/0_around_edinburgh_-_leith_north_leith_cemetery_01777+01778_no_name.htm
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/650191