@deadpetvet.bsky.socialHappy #SkullSaturday ft the raccoon (Procyon lotor) 🦝! Northern raccoons are one of three Procyon species and live all through North America! Raccoons are rabies vectors along the entire East Coast and multiple states in the Midwest and Plains states!
@welwynarchsoc.bsky.socialThis marvellous #skullsaturday is from the monument in Chichester Cathedral to Margaret Miller (died 1701) wife of Sir John Miller and two of their children. Other members of the family, including Sir John himself (died 1721) and his second wife Ann (died 1709) were later added to the inscription.
@welwynarchsoc.bsky.socialThis relief is at St Mary's, Redbourn. It is the east face of a chest tomb to the Grimstead family and dates to the first half of the 18th century. The design is described as "an allegory on time and death." It includes a #skullsaturday and crossbones, serpent eating its tail and a winged hourglass.
@welwynarchsoc.bsky.socialOne for #SkullSaturday. This gravestone is for Mary Crouch who died in 1714 aged 54. This tombstone is in the churchyard of St Helen's, #Wheathampstead, #Hertfordshire. It has three skulls, bats wings and an hourglass. Normally hard to see as it is leaning forward. this photo was taken using flash.
@welwynarchsoc.bsky.socialI saw this tombstone in the graveyard of Rochester Cathedral last Sunday. It has an excellent skull with an hour glass and bat wings, all common memento mori. The tomb is for the wife of John Wickers, ?Susann who died in 1729 and four of their children, Charles, Sarah and "two Roses". #skullsaturday
