What is the oldest tombstone you have encountered iyc? As a kid I saw some graves in rural Illinois from the 1820s.
Old graves of kings and bishops in certain cathedrals.
>>220728676Looks like we've got an Indiana Jose over here, huh?
>>220728407Were they well maintained? For me: ive been in 1700 year old burial caves with some cool inscriptions and symbols (place called Beit Shearim) very cool and mossy. The oldest non proper grave ive seen was about 5500 years old when i was working as an archeology digger when we found some old skeleton dood
>>220728407There's older in the American south. Savannah has older, so does new Orleans. Here there are monasteries with buried saints that are quite old. Not sure the oldest I never paid attention. Pre 1500s for sure.
>>220728407i think we have some revolutionary war onest. new englander
>>220728407I went to see picrel once. It’s the guy who we commonly cite as the countries father. And his two wives obviously
Dunno about tombstones, but lots of cairns (bronze/iron age).
One dating back to the 1700s, was some German farmer
>>220730378>Were they well maintained? No lol
2004They just threw corpses in public property back then
>>220728407Last year I was at a cemetery in Ohio, most of it was reserved for one old stock family and the oldest headstone I could fine (that was still legible) was from 1854.
>>220728407Approximately 800 AD.
