Detail from a gravestone in the Sint Jans-kathedraal in the town of 's-Hertogenbosch (luckily, normally referred to as "den Bosch").The grave is dated 14 October 1380 and as you can see, it has a large vertical crack in it. Still, it's not in bad shape for being over 600 years old.
I like the bird (heron? stork? eagle?) in the coat of arms.
St Jans is a beautiful church; like many such churches, during gothic times it was transformed. This stone dates from the period when the major gothic construction began (1340).
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The stork with the snake and the tree have some real importance in the coat of arms. I also like the skull and cross bones. And that crack. We could speculate that it was cracked by the person inside wanting out now. I have never seen a tombstone this old. Here, were I live, we do have some from the very early 1800s and one or two from late 1700s but nothing older with a stone.
Impressive coat of arms. The skull & cross bones throws one for a bit of a loop though.
600 years is a long time, I like this stone, nice shot
And? Did you like 'sHartogenbosch? You see (like us all photography lovers) such wonderfull detaills, its great that you saw this little piece of wood-art....
600 years old???wow...looks to be in good shape is right!
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