Sentence examples for Grave slab from inspiring English sources

It was formerly the custom to put a brass tablet over the grave slab, and on this would be shown a figure of the deceased with his armorial bearings.

John pictures the angels seated one at the head and the other at the foot of the grave slab, a symbolic detail, Archbishop Williams suggests, recalling the Hebrews' ark of God, described in the Scriptures as flanked by two cherubim.

The churchyard, containing the superb 12th-century Doorty Cross, and the attached ruin -- with the carved grave slab of a 14th-century knight -- proved excellent places for a game of hide and seek.

There is a late 13th-century grave slab, with an inscription in Norman script which says "Pray for Richard de Lue" (Louth).

In front of me, a boy crawls onto a grave slab and kneels in two pools of dirty water on top of it.

We would also get radiocarbon dates from the bones to get a more accurate date for the burial and have an expert in medieval sculpture looks at the carved grave slab".

Our girls picked dandelions around medieval grave slabs.

Two horizontal grave slabs measuring 6ft (1.83m) by 3ft (91cm) and four-inches (10cm) deep were pulled out of the ground and removed.

The church at Kilchattan that dates from this period has some "intricately carved medieval grave slabs".

Two centrally placed grave slabs are visible below the east window.

A genuine 11th century Norse grave-slab was found at Dóid Mhàiri in 1838, although it was not associated with a burial.