need help finding 17th century cemetery pics

[debbie5]

A few years ago, a friend found a website of an old New England cemetery with great gravestones from late 1600's to 1700's. The stones had the winged skull-head decorations, great lettering & textures to the stones, etc. I had this site bookmarked in my old computer, which took the bookmarks when it died. I even pluggd in the old 'puter last week and waved a chicken foot and smoking sage bundle over it, and could not coax the spirit of my bookmarks to speak to me....
I cannot find this dang website, nor anything like it. It had a ton of gravestones...can anyone please help me find these images? I think the cemetery was in MA, but any site with pics from this timeframe would be **greatly** appreciated. My 'puter connection is so slow, it is taking me forever just to do fruitless searches.

Thanks.

[Haunted Bayou]

This has links to historical grave yards.
I'll click through some for you to see if there is a particularly good one.


http://www.gravematter.com/

[Haunted Bayou]

This has a winged skull....it may be what you are looking for!

http://www.mass-doc.com/mass_cemetery_guide.htm

[dynoflyer]

They don't get much older than the one in our town.

http://www.oldburialhill.org/

[debbie5]

HOLY POO DYNOFLYER! THAT'S THE ONE!!
Now, what are the chances of THAT happening?? That's the exact site I was looking for (for over a year), and thought I would never find again. Not for next year, but I want to make gravestones using Stolloween's mache recipes & techniques, the images & "feel" of these stones, but warp them with a Nightmare Before Christmas edge (i.e. not symmetrical, elongated..more cartoonish).

Ohhhh...this is better than Christmas morning...no- make that HALLOWEEN NIGHT! You don't know how HAPPY I am right now...OMG..OMG...thanks! And thanks H. Bayou for helping as well.. I will add those to my image crockpot to make a stew of ideas....

I find these gravestones to be incredibly beautiful in the way that they are so lovingly, yet quickly made. There is great attention to the hand work and symmetry of the stone carving. I am amazed they have lasted so well, which is odd, since they are so close to the corrosive sea air. We have a very old cemetary in my town, and I can barely read most of the stones, as they are made of marble, not shale. Plus, the pictures are great- you can see the chisel strokes and florishes...the sun is shading the stones in just the right way so one could easily recreate the look with a brush & paint. I try not to think of the inscriptions...it makes me sad & I think of the stories behind the lives: an infant dies in December, her 25 year old mother dies 2 months later, probably sick & heartbroken....young men drowned at sea.....life is so short, really....a blink.

[Haunted Bayou]

Isn't HauntForum the best?!

It is amazing what answers people get here. Glad you found the right one! Really cool sight. I am bookmarking that one! I love old grave markers!