Rough cut

Wicked_Dark

a late grave in an early cemetery at Ordione Point in Rye NH-



I just loved the angle of the sunlight hitting this and took several shots. This is the best one and sepia just brings out the most of it - the texture best of all. Strangely there's a 200 year gap in burials in this cemetery. The stones from the early 1600s are rough, unshaped and uncarved, then there is this one and later still more formal and recognizable grave markers. Weird.

ChuBean

A very cool shot of a unique and old head stone. I like the treatment. I'm glad to hear that no one died for 200 years in those parts...

Wicked_Dark

heh. if that were only the case. Actually I think once Portsmouth was settled in 1623, the fort that was on this site became a fishing outpost and the dead were interred in town. Then when this area became more populous, they started burying local again.