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A flowers and bow design on a headstone, carved from Italian marble. The headstone would have been fashioned in Italy and imported to New Zealand, with the lettering hand-carved in Dunedin. Photo: Gerard O'Brien.
Otago Daily Times photographer Gerard O'Brien takes a stroll among the many decorative headstones in the Southern Cemetery, at the south end of Dunedin's town belt.
• Carved stones tell old stories
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Des Claquers
Sat, 14/01/2017 - 5:23am #
Woo!/ Sorry, ahem, applause, calls for "Mason!". Is there a symbologist who might know if the Celtic Cross is pre Christian (staff of life/generator of life), and whether the sign for female gender is based upon it?