Gravestone Epitaphs & Iconography: Part 1

Dr. Anne Mason, PAS Executive Director, provides an introduction to the winged skull or death's head motif. Filmed on Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

[Dorisasaurus]

I absolutely love the old fashioned Winged Skull and Hanna Bartlett had a lovely granite encasing put around her skate stone at one time. It’s beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
The old poems in on some of the stones around Burial hill and All over Massachusetts

[davestelling]

Very well presented, and very interesting.
Thank you...

[HollyBeth]

John Bartlett actually died in 1773, not 1775. It got me wondering because my family is related to the Bartlett family, so I wanted to look into more of his background. Thank you for providing videos on this topic.

[nightshift]

Hi I noticed you mentioned the name Mason, I recorded a Graveyard sometime back, and there were masons buried there, have you any relations in Ireland?

[davemeeks]

I don't recall seeing a foot stone. What is the reason for a foot stone.

[janetfranson]

I have Indigenous relatives in the Taunton area. Don't think they would allow Native people to be buried in a WHITE cemetery, even if they had been Christianized? Where might have info I could follow up on them?