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Name: Leonard Chester
Location: Wethersfield, CT
Date: 1648
Carver: Matthew Griswold
The (apparent) second-oldest existing gravestone in New England. An "armiger" is someone whose lineage qualifies them for a coat-of-arms.
Location: Wethersfield, CT
Date: 1648
Carver: Matthew Griswold
The (apparent) second-oldest existing gravestone in New England. An "armiger" is someone whose lineage qualifies them for a coat-of-arms.
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1229 x 1280px
File Size 637.9 kB
I'm thinking back to recall if this was the one I remember, but a stone akin to this (a single-interment stone vault tomb) that was very old, along with the name (and being someone with knighthood or a retained coat-of-arms) sounding familiar to that memory, was archaeologically exhumed from a very old enclosed church in the New World a few years ago. The remains I don't recall being shown when the topstone (if it is this one, pictured) was removed, but the video I saw on Youtube made a point of recording the inscription. I don't remember the details, but the above engraving looks more than a little familiar.
I don't know if the team entrusted to the work was either going to replace everything or move the stone (and whatever remains were there) to a ground or yard burial like the one pictured above, the details of which I don't recall mention in the video. But if this is the one I remember, the enclosed vault and the topstone above being covered with sealing stone (hence the archaeological team's work) over top of it would've protected a flat stone and its inscription that much the better.
-2Paw.
I don't know if the team entrusted to the work was either going to replace everything or move the stone (and whatever remains were there) to a ground or yard burial like the one pictured above, the details of which I don't recall mention in the video. But if this is the one I remember, the enclosed vault and the topstone above being covered with sealing stone (hence the archaeological team's work) over top of it would've protected a flat stone and its inscription that much the better.
-2Paw.
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