In the 16th and 17th centuries, plenty of rural parishes in Scotland utilised a communal coffin of sorts called a ‘common mortkist’, ‘bier’ or ‘parish coffin’.
Ye Olde Eco-Burial: The Trapdoor Coffin
Category: Scotland
Andrew Hyslop; Covenanter, Martyr.
One postcard lead to a story of a murdered covenanter who ended his days in a field in Dumfriesshire
4 Fake Cemetery Ghosts: The weird, the drunk and the monkey.
The long and delightful tradition of going ‘wooooo’ in cemeteries to frighten passers-by is a rarely celebrated phenomenon.
Collection Feature: Agnes Sturgeon
The life of Agnes Sturgeon has expanded beyond her small, folded memorial.
Burials & Beyond 