I was rather excited to find this in the St. Anne's Cemetery. I had read about the skull and cross bones motif in a magazine but had never seen one before. They are prevalent in New England. Sometime the skulls also have wings attached - symbolic of the soul leaving the physical body. I assumed we didn't have cemeteries old enough (or having survived) in Maryland to contain these symbols. . .I was happily wrong. Now, I don't have to travel to New England to find one.
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