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IMAGE AND TEXT: Copp's Hill Burying Ground
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IMAGE and TEXT: Copp's Hill Burying Ground
DESCRIPTION: Shown in this photograph are three of the many gravestones that are inside Copp’s Hill Burying Ground. The gravestones are photographed in a row and at an angle so that the one on the left looks smaller than the one on the far right. The stones are made of slate, a light gray colored stone. The stones are shaped like a rectangle with rounded corners and a half circle at the top middle. All of the stones have carvings on them, most of which you cannot see on the first two stones due to the sunlight. The far most right stone shows a typical 19th century carving of a willow tree bending around the circle at the top and over an urn in the middle. The branches of the willow tree have small leaves that are placed at regular intervals coming off of the main branch. The urn, which is a covered vase has a somewhat narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal. There is text carved into the stone below the urn and willow tree, but it is not readable in the photograph. There is a green leafed tree in the background of the photograph against a clear blue sky. Please note that these stones should not be touched due to their fragile nature. Gravestone rubbings are illegal in the city of Boston.
CREDIT: NPS/James Higgins
RELATED TEXT: From this spot British soldiers bombarded Breed’s Hill with cannon fire on June 17, 1775. Robert Newman, black educator Prince Hall, and blacks and mulattos who worked in North End shipyards are buried in these grounds dating to sixteen sixty.
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Audio description of relevant image and text describing Copp's Hill Burying Ground.
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1 minute, 33 seconds
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UniDescription/Gould and Pollock
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