Many people do not know that gravestone carvings do have meanings. My book The Gravestone Dictionary is a huge
inventory of carvings, meanings, and many many pictures and examples. This section in the Tangled Forest is a very
abbreviated version, but still has many examples from the dictionary. The book will be available in the near future.

Acorn: Life, fertility, and immorality

Angels: Protection and spiritiuality

Angel flying or trumpeting: Rebirth, resurrection, and eternal life.

Bell: Mourning

Book or bible: Everlasting faith

Candle: Divine light of Christ

Chain w/ three links: the Holy Trinity

Coffin: Morality

Crown: Glory of life after death.

Dove: Soul at peace.

Drapery: Mourning or moratlity

Eye of God: God the all seeing.

Hands: Usually seen in the four positions listed below.

Blessing: blessing those left behind

Clasped: farewells, or the bond of marriage

Pointing up: pathway to heaven

Praying: asking God for eternal life

Harp: Praise the lord.

Hourglass: the passage of life.

Lamb: Innocence, commonly used on childrens graves

Masonic compass and set squares: Freemasons, uprightness, and judgement.

Moon: Death, rebirth, and victory.