Survey

Another Saturday morning doing a 'Condition Survey' of the gravestones in Cumbernauld Old Parish Church kirkyard.

For each stone we complete a double-sided A4 questionnaire with details of the type of stone, its dimensions, orientation, inscriptions, extent of moss or lichen cover and suchlike. On other days we photograph each stone from various angles to give us as complete a picture as possible for the public record.

We managed only about 45 minutes on Saturday before the rain started and we called it a day. To be fair we did have coffee, cake and a blether about the planned activities before we started, and another after we had finished for the morning.

There are 337 stones in the old Kirkyard and, so far, we have photographed 105 of them and carried out 60 condition surveys. We've still to upload the photos and survey details, but that will happen at some point over the next few weeks.

It's interesting stuff!