a look at a strange coffin,
carved by John Mitchell he was a highly skilled Stonemason and died in 1729 aged 80 years and is interred at Ratho Kirk, near Edinburgh in Scotland, he spent years carving his own gravestone, shaped as a perfect replica of a coffin, which is strange enough, but on the underside John carved a life sized image of his body wrapped in a Mort cloth,
it is no easy thing to photograph the underside, so here it is saving any photographers visiting from having to lie down on the grass beside the stone and peer up underneath, there is no inscription on the stone for John Mitchell other than his initials and the date 1729, later generations of the Mitchell family are memorialised here as well, including William Mitchell, a Preacher who the inscription tells us ”suffered an instantaneous death by a stroke from a thrashing machine” whilst visiting a local farm, note to self, do not get too near to a thrashing machine, the above found here.
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