https://padlet.com/some_heritage/graveyard Finds from excavations in Dunfermline Abbey Graveyard over the last couple of years en-us 2018-11-06 08:13:18 UTC 2023-03-20 10:03:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Optimplaces.png some_heritage https://padlet.com/some_heritage/graveyard/wish/300851919 We found the scattered remains of porcelain petals and some small flowers in front of the grave of three children. And then, out of the ground popped this rose.

Set into the ground nearby was a red plant pot. Had the flowers been placed in the flower pot, perhaps on wire stems as a graveside decoration? ]]> 2018-11-06 08:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/some_heritage/graveyard/wish/300851919 some_heritage https://padlet.com/some_heritage/graveyard/wish/300853622 The land to the north of the Abbey was the burgh graveyard from the 12th century AD until a new, out-of-town, graveyard was opened in 1863. The old burial ground was finally closed in 1896.
 
We're excavating for lost gravestones and have so far found about 50. But we have also discovered that residents disposed of far more than their dead relatives in the graveyard ...]]> 2018-11-06 08:23:30 UTC https://padlet.com/some_heritage/graveyard/wish/300853622 some_heritage https://padlet.com/some_heritage/graveyard/wish/300862220 We found this between a couple of buried gravestones, but have no idea what it was for. 

Why would someone have taken the trouble to score this odd bit of stone? Were they maybe playing a game, or just mucking about?  ]]> 2018-11-06 08:51:55 UTC https://padlet.com/some_heritage/graveyard/wish/300862220