Lunette - Bozrah Devil Carver LbNA #33101
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Add Location| Owner: | N/A |
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| Plant date: | Jul 16, 2007 |
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| City: | Bozrah |
| County: | New London |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Nomad Indian Saint
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| Found by: | mamooshatoots (now Stamper) |
| Last found: | Mar 14, 2024 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Nov 2, 2015 |
Have you ever marveled at the 18 and early 19th century headstones of our ancestors? The colonial burying grounds of New England represent some of the most wondrous carvings and are treasure troves of information and beauty of many kinds. The stones are the “persisting symbols of an art form that is largely indigenous, that reached a high level of abstract complexity and beauty that died away in an amazingly short period of time.”
The term lunette is referred to as the top central area of the stone, the area containing the cherub. In the towns of Bozrah and Lebanon particularly are a small number of very striking stones produced in the second half of the 18th century that are quite unlike others found in the Connecticut granite area. Many of the stones have the eyes set very close together, with a beady look, down turned mouths, and pointed or curling lines rising from the margin of the cherub face, so that some stones have a distinctly malevolent look. The wings are usually represented as a series of separate curving grooves that begin below the face and curl separately upward and outward, have somewhat the appearance of grass or reed-like rays. Let me take you to one of these stones.
Johnson Cemetery – Bozrah, CT
From the flagpole walk 350 degrees to tall Murdock monument. On the south side of the monument 135 degrees 13 steps to Lydia Birchard (example of Bozrah Devil Carving). From here - 345 degrees to end of stone wall. Take 4 steps southwest under top of stone wall behind a stone. Please don’t remove top of wall. Look to front face and remove small rock in front of box.
The term lunette is referred to as the top central area of the stone, the area containing the cherub. In the towns of Bozrah and Lebanon particularly are a small number of very striking stones produced in the second half of the 18th century that are quite unlike others found in the Connecticut granite area. Many of the stones have the eyes set very close together, with a beady look, down turned mouths, and pointed or curling lines rising from the margin of the cherub face, so that some stones have a distinctly malevolent look. The wings are usually represented as a series of separate curving grooves that begin below the face and curl separately upward and outward, have somewhat the appearance of grass or reed-like rays. Let me take you to one of these stones.
Johnson Cemetery – Bozrah, CT
From the flagpole walk 350 degrees to tall Murdock monument. On the south side of the monument 135 degrees 13 steps to Lydia Birchard (example of Bozrah Devil Carving). From here - 345 degrees to end of stone wall. Take 4 steps southwest under top of stone wall behind a stone. Please don’t remove top of wall. Look to front face and remove small rock in front of box.