A 400-year-old pocket watch 💀⏱️
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💀 Carved ivory and ebony skeleton with gravedigger's shovel, dated 1632. State Art Collections, Dresden. #mementomori
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In the churchyard at St Mary, Tetbury
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A departed gardener.
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From one of the slabs inside St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall.
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The Howff, Dundee.
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St Edmunds Church Kingsbridge, Devon was closed when I visited last week so, like the wonderfully named “ Bone”, I was outside the door.

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#MementoMoriMonday On a wall in Norwich Cathedral...

Circled, a bird as the soul escaping its cage. On the memorial to James the First's treasurer, Sir John (d.1613) with Lady Suckling. St Andrew's Norwich. #MementoMoriMonday

Non-Catholic Cemetery, Rome,
Tomb of the German painter Friedrich
Geselschap (1835 - 1898)
A jawless skull bites a rose, while a snake enters the neck cavity to exit the eye socket 💀🥀🐍
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St Gregory Castlemorton.

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Old St. Mary's Churchyard and Heritage Centre #Gateshead
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#MementoMoriMonday A C17th Scotland Covenanter's #tombstone St Kentigern's Churchyard, #Lanark #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💀

Overkill when proving your noble ancestry. Cranworth, Norfolk. #mementomoriMonday

At rest.
From a headstone in the porch of St Petroc's, Bodmin.
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Something a bit unusual for#MementoMoriMonday. Is this intended to be an hourglass is in the masonry above the porch at St Brynach's Dina's Cross, Pembrokeshire?

Moments of Discovery: a stunning NEW find we made only yesterday: an early modern tombstone from the 17th or 18th century in the ⛪ graveyard at The Govan Stones ⚔🛡👑.

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One of my favourites from Cemitério do Alto de São João, Lisbon ☠️
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St Brigid`s Well, Liscannor, County Clare #mementomoriMonday