Gravestone Newlands Churchyard
I knew today would be my 300th and also that I had only this morning to make it a special one. As I'm a firm believer that things will happen right if you let them I decided to revisit one of the graveyards nearby. I was last there when it was covered in snow last winter and hadn't quite realized in what a bad state of repair it was. We really should hang our heads in shame about how we treat these places which are of great historical importance.
But I was right in expecting it to come up with my blip. These 3 figures represent 100 blips each!! All writing has disappeared from this stone but according to the Peeblesshire Monumental Inscriptions book (compiled by Sheila A Scott In 1971), this stone belongs to James Borrowman, who died in February 1710, aged 19. I'm supposing one of the figures represents him and maybe the other two his parents or siblings. It really upsets me to see how the whole place is slowly falling into disrepair, many stones have already fallen over and even more have become unreadable. Hopefully I can try in a small way to keep the memory alive.
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