Monday 18 February 2008

STONES AND BONES

The sun shone on Clachan of Campsie graveyard today. This little village at the foot of the Campsie Hills is along the road from Milton of Campsie and Lennoxtown both of which were places where calico printing took place in the days when cotton was brought to the west of Scotland and spun, dyed, printed, washed in the various outlying hamlets or 'clachans'. This was in the 18th and 19th century.

This graveyard has some very old graves and at the entrance is the skull and crossbones (symbolizing mortality) to the left of the opening. It looks like it has been moved from somewhere else and perched in a re-located position.


Long shadows in the row of headstones. Some date from the 1600s which is also the century date just visible below the skull and crossbones, i.e. 16__. Buchanan names are some that are recognizable.



Famous people buried in the graveyard and the history of the Parish Church of Campsie (in ruins) can be read about here and here.

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