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SOLD (Betty Willsher (already known to gravestone
enthusiasts as co-author of Stones: A Guide to
Some Remarkable Eighteenth-Century
Gravestones) here takes a historical and interpretive approach to Scotland's graveyards. She examines their past and points out the features in them that reflect it; she guides the reader among the stones, discussing types of monument and relating each to its period; she explains the earlier symbolic carvings and analyses the changing fashions in sculpture and inscription.
Her purpose is not only to inspire in the reader a fresh appreciation of the local graveyard. Scotland's graveyards arc in peril. Yearly, stones are lost, destroyed by vandals, toppled by gales, and cleared away by over-zealous tidiers. Those that are left must be conserved; they must also be described and listed before it is too late, and Mrs Willsher devotes a section of her book to explaining aspects of this urgently needed recording work.
This book has been commissioned and prepared on
the initiative of the Council for British Archaeology Scotland.)
enthusiasts as co-author of Stones: A Guide to
Some Remarkable Eighteenth-Century
Gravestones) here takes a historical and interpretive approach to Scotland's graveyards. She examines their past and points out the features in them that reflect it; she guides the reader among the stones, discussing types of monument and relating each to its period; she explains the earlier symbolic carvings and analyses the changing fashions in sculpture and inscription.
Her purpose is not only to inspire in the reader a fresh appreciation of the local graveyard. Scotland's graveyards arc in peril. Yearly, stones are lost, destroyed by vandals, toppled by gales, and cleared away by over-zealous tidiers. Those that are left must be conserved; they must also be described and listed before it is too late, and Mrs Willsher devotes a section of her book to explaining aspects of this urgently needed recording work.
This book has been commissioned and prepared on
the initiative of the Council for British Archaeology Scotland.)
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Review:
'...Betty Wilsher's Understanding Scottish Graveyards (an updated edition of the 1985 original) is, again, a model of its kind.' -- Art and Christianity, January, 2006
'...The style of writing is approachable yet with much detail. A new classic.' -- British Archaeology, September/October, 2005
About the Author:
'...The style of writing is approachable yet with much detail. A new classic.' -- British Archaeology, September/October, 2005
Betty Willsher is the doyenne of the study of Scottish historical kirkyards.
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- PublisherChambers
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0550204822
- ISBN 13 9780550204820
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages100
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