Memento Mori

Cross bones are common symbols on old Scottish gravestones. Some believe that they mark the graves of pirates but if that were true piracy would have been the career of choice for almost everyone! They are in fact symbols of mortality; along with carved skulls, coffins, hour-glasses, grave-diggers tools, deid bells, and often, but not here, the chilling message Memento Mori, they serve as reminders to the still living that they too must die.