Lunette - Gershom Bartlett #2 LbNA #37625
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jan 16, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Bolton |
| County: | Tolland |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Nomad Indian Saint  |
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| Found by: | Bomar Bunch |
| Last found: | Sep 20, 2014 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaa |
| Last edited: | Jan 16, 2008 |
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. Gershom Bartlett’s carvings are among the most bizarre and strikingly original of any produced during the 18th century. His stones are easily recognized by the bulbous noses, turned down mouths, row of vestigial teeth at the bottom of the face, raised eyebrows, usually four- lobed crown, three curved wings of curls beside the face, or sometimes large puffy mushroom-like protuberances from the sides of the head. Bartlett is often called the “hook-and-eye man”. He was a native of Bolton, CT. This example is the Ballooned-winged type stone. To find this lunette and the letterbox, follow the clues below.
Bolton Center Burying Ground - Bolton, CT
The old stones are at the front of the graveyard placed in long irregular rows behind a relatively recent cement and boulder stone wall. Find the large Deacon Thomas Pitkin stone (1766), which is very close to the stone wall that abuts the road and is very close to a tree. Stand on the left side of the stone (you should be facing the lunette) and take a reading to 145 degrees. Walk in that direction to a multi trunk tree in the distance and find the letterbox in its middle.
The term lunette is referred to as the top central area of the stone, the area containing the cherub. Gershom Bartlett’s carvings are among the most bizarre and strikingly original of any produced during the 18th century. His stones are easily recognized by the bulbous noses, turned down mouths, row of vestigial teeth at the bottom of the face, raised eyebrows, usually four- lobed crown, three curved wings of curls beside the face, or sometimes large puffy mushroom-like protuberances from the sides of the head. Bartlett is often called the “hook-and-eye man”. He was a native of Bolton, CT. This example is the Ballooned-winged type stone. To find this lunette and the letterbox, follow the clues below.
Bolton Center Burying Ground - Bolton, CT
The old stones are at the front of the graveyard placed in long irregular rows behind a relatively recent cement and boulder stone wall. Find the large Deacon Thomas Pitkin stone (1766), which is very close to the stone wall that abuts the road and is very close to a tree. Stand on the left side of the stone (you should be facing the lunette) and take a reading to 145 degrees. Walk in that direction to a multi trunk tree in the distance and find the letterbox in its middle.