Ancient graveyards & mysterious monuments

Writer Emlyn Harris, creator of the BBC series on London's Highgate Cemetery, 'The Sexton's Tales' discovers a unique monument in an ancient church graveyard.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• graveyard
• cemetery
• Highgate
• tombstone
• art
• monument
• headstone
• history

[edup12]

"IHS" is interpreted as meaning Iesus Hominum Salvator ("Jesus, Savior of men", in Latin).The "J" and "I" has the same pronounciation, so you can find "JHS" as well.

[electrostrike]

i went on a tour of highgate cemetery - which probably sounds crazy. but it was really awsome, very interesting, and very atmospheric!

[marcosmarinheiro]

The older, the better!

[FadedSilkandGhosts]

@allymetoo

Where did you pull that info from? Because other than being a very strange assumption, your trinity is NOT correct. The Ancient Egyptian trinity of mother, father and son is Isis, Osiris, Horus. Isis being mother, Osiris being father and sacrificial Jesus like figure, and their son Horus, who triumphed over Set. Set was the enemy of Isis, as he killed Osiris and abused their son. So, I'm just curious where you are getting this information.

[Hkepfer]

IHS = I in Latin for J; H in Latin for Ch & S for S.

e.g. Jesus Christ Savior.

..and yes there is controversy regarding IHS but there shouldn't be.

[Scooby71Doo]

@electrostrike my family think i am weird because i love spending time looking around cemetaries. However, i find the dead and their monuments more interesting than the living.

[mmedefarge]

There's a Victorian & early 20th cent. section of Calvary Cemetery in Queens, N.Y. that has the most curious grave monument I've ever seen. It's a life-sized, stone, claw & ball footed bathtub with a stone towel draped over the edge. It stands atop a pedestal with no more info about it than the usual engraving on the pedestal DOB & DOD. Always wondered what it meant. Did he throw in the towel, or was cleansed of sin before he died or maybe he took a bath in the crash of '29?

[allymetoo]

There is yet a third meaning of IHS, which is:

Isis Horus Seth ( The Egyptian Trinity )

[broadheadg]

wow