Slate

A brief pause before setting up the gig to visit Atherstone where M thought she might find some ancestors in the churchyard. As it happened, the church in Atherstone was only a chapel of ease, so the burial ground was down the road half a mile in Mancetter.
Fantastic slate gravestones, still looking pristine after 260 years. M found three relatives, and a philosophical gravestone
I was struck by this one, the slate allowed the monumental masons to really go to town on the curlicues!
Here
lieth interred ye Body of
Elizabeth Tyler
who DEPARTED this life
Octob ye 15. 1747 Aged 25.
My time, was fhort, but yet I lived to See
That all this world, below, was Vanity

Therefore in this fhort span, of life, did I
Make, preparation, for Eternity.
T. Coulson Barwell sculpt. it.