More Norfolk Graves

More deaths head gravestones found on my four day tour of North Norfolk in July 2008. Starting top left with an impressive peice of work featuring human skull and winged hourglass from the church of St Mary at Brancaster. Moving along the North Norfolk coast a little we have, top right, an impressively carved skull with human bone underneath from St Mary at Burnham Deepdale. One of my favourite churches visited was the church of St Margaret at Burnham Norton, which has an exquisite round tower church perched on its own on top of a hill. These two graves were next to each other in the immeculatelt kept grounds. Almost cartoon like in appearance they remind me a great deal of similar found in neighbouring Burnham Westgate. Those pictures can be found in Norfolk Graves 1 in this section of the site. They date from around the same time...could this be the same hand at work doing the carving on each?

Top left in this second block of four photographs and a skull on top of a column from the large church grounds at St Withburgha on the Holkham estate. A column on a gravestone sometimes indicates the loss of the head of the family. Sometimes the column is broken. Top right and bottom left and two very striking skulls stare out through the gloom and the rain on a truly miserable morning at the church of St Peter Great Walsingham. Bottom right, and in truth not looking very skull like, a close up of detail from a gravestone at St Mary, Kelling.