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ianrankin1.bsky.social
Took a walk this afternoon. Hard to escape the Castle in central Edinburgh…
The Castle seen from the Grassmarket/foot of Granny’s Green Steps. The Castle seen from Saint Cuthbert’s Kirkyard.
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
undisscot.bsky.social
The magnificent Aberlemno Kirkyard Pictish cross slab in Angus. It is one of the finest of all the Pictish stones to have survived and the rear of the slab come complete with battle scene depiction, a Bayeux Tapestry in stone. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Angus #Aberlemno
The Aberlemno Kirkyard Pictish cross slab. The image shows the kirkyard at Aberlemno in bright sunshine. A row of graves stands end on and starts in the bottom left of the frame, while another starts in the bottom right and converges with the first as it goes towards the wall on the far side of the kirkyard. The second stone in the right-hand row, whose front is partly visible, is much larger than the other stones and carries a deeply carved cross and other carvings.
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
scotchurchestrust.bsky.social
We haven't done an #IronWorkThursday post for a while, so here's one of the wrought iron gates leading into the kirkyard around our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, Corstorphine Old Parish Church, Edinburgh.

The arms are those of the Forrester family, founders of this ancient church, who also lie within.
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
helengrantsays.bsky.social
For those who are interested, here is the Rev. Robert Kirk's grave in the kirkyard at Aberfoyle. I took this pic earlier this year. Note all the little offerings.
Flat gravestone with latin inscription and offerings of coins, painted stones etc.
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
shortbreadfairy.bsky.social
Good morning ☕️ people & non nazi types

Another beautiful day oot there, but all over social media, it seems the nazi way is coming to us🙄

Feck 'em. Stop copying the nazi shit

Have some non nazi leaves to look at instead & stick kettle on
Leaves fallen in a Kirkyard
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
shivaunsay.bsky.social
Some beautiful grave markers in the Kirkyard on the Canongate… 🪦 #edinburgh
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
walkhighlands.co.uk
One of Scotland's most popular wee hills, did you know Dumyat is pronounced 'DUMB-eye-at'?
An alternative to the usual shorter route from the Sherrifmuir road, we've just replaced our old Dumyat from Blairlogie route to make a fine circuit - live now.
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/fife-stirlin...
Grassy hill path View over town from elevated path, with birch tree in autumn colour Narrow path across slope with soft, low light Church in sunny kirkyard.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
greybriar.art
A peaceful night to yew and yours. #halloween #allsouls #samhain #darkart
a painting of a large yew tree in an old kirkyard, with many stones being absorbed into the woods and wisps floating about
October 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
davelifelines.bsky.social
#31DaysOfGraves Day#31 Memento Mori

Seven years ago today I spent a fascinating hour or so wandering around Abercorn Kirkyard in West Lothian looking at all the Memento Mori gravestones.

Here are a few of the best...
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
wolfq4.bsky.social
For the 1st day of all hallows tide & last day of #31DaysOfGraves here is my final October grave
Beautifully symbolic graveyard sculpture in St Cuthbert's Kirkyard, Edinburgh with #MementoMori & 'vive memor leti' on either side of doorway, reminding us that life is finite
#Halloween
#skystorians
Photo of the entrance to a grave in St Cuthbert's, #Edinburgh Photo credit: Lorraine Murray, 2024
October 31, 2025 at 8:05 AM
brudhearg.bsky.social
#31DaysOfGraves Day 30: Colour
Ruadh. Rusty orange lichen on a couple of gravestones in Ettrick Kirkyard.💛
October 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
scotchurchestrust.bsky.social
Day 29 of #31DaysOfGraves - Occupation

A gravestone erected in 1765 over the shared plot of members of the Society of Coach Drivers in the Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh.

These Canongate-based coachmen travelled the Edinburgh to London route, a journey that could take 10 or more days in winter.
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
crystalponti.bsky.social
Scotland’s Greyfriars Kirkyard is said to host one of the world’s most violent spirits - the Mackenzie Poltergeist. Visitors still report scratches, bruises, and fainting near his crypt. #WyrdWednesday
October 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
wolfq4.bsky.social
Day 29 #31DaysOfGraves #occupation
Grave of Peter Macadam, Merchant, interred in the Ramshorn Kirkyard #Glasgow
Lair no.6 has a full height iron #mortcage to protect the dead from the #resurrectionists looking for a fresh #cadaver to sell to medical students
#DarkTourist
#skystorians
#Taphophile
Grave of Peter Macadam, a Glasgow Merchant by profession. Located in the Ramshorn Kirkyard, formerly known as St David's Kirkyard, in the merchant city area of Glasgow. Image shows a family grave, lair 6 which is covered by a full height iron mortcage / mortsafe as a deterrent and to protect those interred below from the resurrection men, also known as body snatchers. Photo credit: Lorraine Murray, 2024
October 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
simoninsuffolk.bsky.social
'This burying ground is the property of Charles Wilsone, Surgeon in Glasgow 1800'

A plaque in the Ramshorn Kirkyard, Glasgow. Occupations on grave markers are everywhere, but they're particularly common in Scotland, a means of asserting status even after death. 1/3

#31DaysofGraves 29: Occupation
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
scotchurchestrust.bsky.social
Day 28 of #31DaysOfGraves - Column

There are two beautifully carved columns, with Ionic capitals, on either side of this delightful 18th century gravemarker that depicts two millers tending to their mill wheel, with the water that powers it shown whooshing in behind.

It's in Abernyte Kirkyard.
October 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
alanwilson.bsky.social
Strolling today from Greyfriars Kirkyard down to Princes Street.
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#Edinburgh
October 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
pastandotherplaces.bsky.social
#31DaysOfGraves #Day27 #tree
This lovely old tree in Liberton Kirkyard #Edinburgh looks at its best in autumn and winter.
View of a church and graveyard in winter. There is a large old tree with branches lightly covered in snow and snow lies on the ground. There are several headstones. The church tower and red door can be seen in the background. The sky is grey. Dusk in a graveyard on a cold winter day. There is snow on the ground. A bare-branched old tree is in the centre of the image, encircled in gravestones and made copper coloured by the light. The sky is pink at the horizon, then pale yellow and blue. A tree in autumn in a graveyard. The bright sunshine enhances the orange leaves. The tree is encircled by gravestones and there are brown leaves on the ground. The sky is blue.
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
handhyorkshire.bsky.social
themselves Covenanters, fought two brief Bishops’ Wars, ending with an English defeat at Newburn Ford in 1640. Desperate, Charles called a Great Council at York, which urged him to negotiate. In October, English and Scottish commissioners met at Nunwick Prebend House in Ripon
In the early 1600s, King Charles I tried to impose bishops and the English prayer book on Scotland’s Calvinist Church. The defiant Scots, calling themselves the Covenanters, fought two brief Bishops’ Wars, ending with an English defeat at Newburn Ford in 1640. The Signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh William Allan City Art Centre
October 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
wyrdwordwitch666.bsky.social
More gorgeous graves in the Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh.
This place is a grave and I dig it.🪦 #GreyfriarsKirkyard #MementoMori
Huge grave monument Beautiful memento mori symbol of a coffin with tools & spades spread out around it. Beautiful tomb monument of a cross Memento Mori skull & crossbones carving outside a tomb
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
sarahcoomer.bsky.social
The big thing I did this year and haven't been able to say much about up until now is that I was SOMEHOW asked to illustrate the new Folio Society edition of A Christmas Carol, introduced by Simon Callow. Bit of a dream job. www.foliosociety.com/uk/a-christm...
Limited edition of the Folio Society's A Christmas Carol, illustrated by me. It's bound in red leather with embossed gold wreath and lettering, and the box is lined by and illustration of a snowy night time Dickensian city scene. Surrounded by stuff on my desk (pens, glasses, glue etc). The standard edition of the Folio Society's A Christmas Carol illustrated by me. The book itself featured a view of Scrooge in a long black coat with a top hat and red scarf from the back, surveying the snowy London skyline. The slip case is green and has vignettes of relevent scenes and motifs in the style of Georgian wallpaper. One of the vignettes is a circular cut out, so when the book is in the slipcase you can see Scrooge's head through it. Surrounded by the loads of rubbish I have on my desk. An illustration from the first stave of A Christmas Carol. Scrogge is sat by his fire eating his gruel when across his large but shabby drawing room, Marley's ghost appears. An illustration of the fourth stave, featuring Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas yet to come (who is a Victorian widow in high mourning, completely draped and almost invisible in black net and bombazine). They are in a graveyard, which is based largely on St Cuthbert's Kirkyard in Edinburgh. She points to his grave, and he looks at it in horror. There is a smaller gravestone to his right, capped with snow which features a skull in bas relief and the words 'MOMENTO MORI' in a motto scroll over the top. The moon shines from an Atkinson Grimshaw-esque greenish winter sky, illuminating the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.
October 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
wyrdwordwitch666.bsky.social
A spooky, Frankenstein-themed day in #Edinburgh today!

After catching Guillermo Del Toro's seminal film at the resurrected #Filmhouse, we took a dander around Greyfriars Kirkyard, before visiting some of the filming locations. ⚡💚
#Frankenstein #SpookyEdinburgh #FrankensteinsBierKeller
#Filmhouse
Wyrd in a Frankenstein & The Bride cardigan, with only one button done, looking happy as usual Huge, 10ft bronze statue of Frankenstein's Creature, standing in a doorway, cast in Angelic light from above The Bride & Franky statues stand in front of an open fireplace, lit with neon green lights. The mantel is framed with dripping mounds of wax and faux bloomage A large, spooky skeleton in a red glass vial
October 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
lizanne.bsky.social
#31DaysofGraves Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
October 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
janejanealogy.bsky.social
#31DaysOfGraves day 21 - copper. Best I can do is the vaguely copper-coloured gravestone of Donald Corrigall Bruce and Helen Ross at St John’s kirkyard in my #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims #Orkney Helen would be my 1st cousin x3 removed, 1st cousin of my great grandfather.
October 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
ianrankin1.bsky.social
Saint Cuthbert’s Kirkyard this afternoon.
October 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM