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3 hours ago, Bendigo said:

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If you look at the date on the stone you will see it’s 1924.

Back then the swastika was a symbol of welcome, fortune, prosperity and distribution of good fortune. 
It could be found in religious buildings etc everywhere.

The clue is in the angle it’s set at.

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Not so much an headstone but a memorial which I found interesting walking around Walton on the Naze today I met up with a few old retired railway mates for a bit of grub and a few pints and see this.

Reading an African hunting forum.  (At some point in the next 10 years I want to hunt Africa. Definitely wearing a pith helmet) Someone had visited nyeri cemetery and had posted some interes

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39 minutes ago, WILF said:

If you look at the date on the stone you will see it’s 1924.

Back then the swastika was a symbol of welcome, fortune, prosperity and distribution of good fortune. 
It could be found in religious buildings etc everywhere.

The clue is in the angle it’s set at.

I always saw it as a very pagan symbol so didn't expect to see it on a Christian gravestone....though it is on a Celtic Cross. The grave yard has a few graves with Masonic symbols on them as well 

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On 19/01/2024 at 20:37, chartpolski said:

On Holy Island, Lindisfarne, there are some headstones with skull and crossbones; they are Freemasons graves.

Cheers.

Do you know  if  starfish (on a headstone)mean anything? 

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