Halloween Gallery

Three genii DP143592

Housesteads Fort, Hadriana??s Wall,
Northumberland. This relief of three a??genii cucullatia?? (hooded deities) was discovered in a domestic shrine in the civilian settlement outside the fort. Wrapped up against the cold northern winds, the a??hooded onesa?? wear thick woollen capes which were exported from Britain

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Crypt Hythe Church AL0196_007_02

St Leonard'??s Church, Hythe, Kent. This image shows the ossuary, or bone store, in the vaulted ambulatory beneath the chancel of St Leonard'??s Church. The space had been used to store skulls and other bones disturbed during building work or when new graves were dug. Some 10, 000 bones, including around 2, 000 skulls, dating from the medieval period were arranged on shelves or stacked in piles. The ossuary had long attracted visitors, and the photograph shows advertisements for guides written by the vicar, and a table with what appears to be a visitors'?? book and a donations box. James Valentine & Sons Ltd albumen print c.1900

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Highgate Cemetery AA074548

HIGHGATE CEMETERY, Hampstead, London. View through shrubbery towards the pedestal tomb of Frank Holl in the West Cemetery. Holl was an artist and pioneer of New Realism in the mid 19th century, before finding success with portraiture and eventually dying from overwork. Photographed by John Gay in 1989

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