Two oddities from the South Yarmouth Mystery Cemetery.
Click to embiggen, as always.
Oddity #1:
This singular grave was surrounded by five trees (I wish I knew enough about tree varieties to name them, but no), arranged like a five-pointed star, with the point at the footstone. The fifth tree is just out of sight to the left in the picture above.
The arrangement was far too geometrically arranged and evenly measured for this to be coincidental, in my opinion, particularly since there were only a couple other trees in the whole cemetery, near the edges (this shot shows the collection from a greater distance - the three trees forming a triangle in the center of the image are the star's top point, and the headstone is just visible in the shadow of one of them). It looks for all the world like somebody purposely planted these five trees around this one grave. Any other cemetery-rovers ever seen anything like this before? Unfortunately the headstone was too weathered to yield any info, I would have guessed it dated from the 1800s based on the state of the damage and compared with other stones in the same cemetery from that period.
Oddity #2:
This stone had a hunk of decaying wood set upright in the ground right next to it - I expect it's too much to hope that this might be a remnant of the original grave marker, but it sure seems that way. The death date on the stone was 1838, but I'm pretty sure the stone itself isn't near that old. Could that chunk of wood be an original marker? Awesome.
Oddity #1:
This singular grave was surrounded by five trees (I wish I knew enough about tree varieties to name them, but no), arranged like a five-pointed star, with the point at the footstone. The fifth tree is just out of sight to the left in the picture above.
The arrangement was far too geometrically arranged and evenly measured for this to be coincidental, in my opinion, particularly since there were only a couple other trees in the whole cemetery, near the edges (this shot shows the collection from a greater distance - the three trees forming a triangle in the center of the image are the star's top point, and the headstone is just visible in the shadow of one of them). It looks for all the world like somebody purposely planted these five trees around this one grave. Any other cemetery-rovers ever seen anything like this before? Unfortunately the headstone was too weathered to yield any info, I would have guessed it dated from the 1800s based on the state of the damage and compared with other stones in the same cemetery from that period.
Oddity #2:
This stone had a hunk of decaying wood set upright in the ground right next to it - I expect it's too much to hope that this might be a remnant of the original grave marker, but it sure seems that way. The death date on the stone was 1838, but I'm pretty sure the stone itself isn't near that old. Could that chunk of wood be an original marker? Awesome.