The Graves of Pirates near St Fergus 18th C
Location of the 18th century gravestone in the kirkyard of St Fergus if someone thought that these symbols represented the graves of pirates.
They are in fact symbols designed to remind us of our own mortality.
On some gravestone the symbols are the hour glass indicating the rapid passage of time, the skull and crossed femurs, the Mort bell to be rung at our own passing and the crossed sexton’s tools that will be used to dig our own lair (grave).
1693 oldest visible gravestone engraved in the old wall, with mortality symbols.
Graves inserted in the walls, good way to protect them, most of them from 17 and 18th Century.
The rings on the wall outside were placed so people could tie their horses up outside.
On one gravestone there is an inscription – “Here lies W. Henderson on of the town clerks of the city of Edinburgh”.
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