Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Butler Arch

This unusual stone is in the Little Compton burying ground in Rhode Island. I've read about gravestones in North Carolina that have cut-out pieces, but I've never seen anything else quite like this in New England.

2 comments:

VJESCI said...

.was never much in to the makers of this record but it did come to mind because of the obvious similarity to a certain shape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_magnetic

Jon von Briesen said...

One can see a few 19th stones with cutouts, in this NC churchyard: Abbots Creek Primitive Baptist Ch.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
/~pocky/abbottscreekcem.html