Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music, of a Skeleton holding an arrow gravestone in a graveyard burial ground on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Angus, Britain, United Kingdom. This 17th century gravestone carved tombstone represents death as a skeleton carrying an arrow and talking to an old woman.. Death was a frequent visitor to cottages and houses in the 1700s. In many areas, it was a world of poverty with poor sanitation, malnourishment, and scant medical knowledge. Infant and child mortality were high. Epidemics of smallpox, measles, and whooping cough swept through communities, overcoming the most vulnerable. When gravestones first began to be engraved, many of the common people were illiterate. Not only could they not read or write, the stonemasons who carved the gravestones couldn’t either. As a result, the engraved carvings were not meant as mere decorations but were symbols that the layman could understand. Some of the earliest gravestones, especially those in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Colonial New England, had skulls and crossbones on them. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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