Saturday, 24 August 2013

A while back I went on a trip with some friends to Norfolk. We passed through Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk on the way back and went for a stroll through the medieval ruins of the abbey.

While I won't give an account here of the history of this place (I am certainly not an historian), this image of course caught my eye when doing a bit of research.



Five abbots graves excavated in 1903 after a manuscript was discovered in France revealing the location of the Abbey's abbots.  




While I unfortunately didn't get time to explore the whole town I did come across some fantastic skull adorned gravestones in a small cemetery near the abbey. I can't seem to find any information on them but thought I would post the images for the sake of aesthetics and curiosity. Needless to say, when I finally leave this earth someone had better be sorting out some sweet skulls for my gravestone.