Great Day at Mantels!

You don't know what you missed! We had a great day yesterday at Mantels! The ground was finally soft enough to probe and the revelations were numerous.

We made the decision to reset the footstones where possible, something we wouldn’t normally do, but since this is a very historic cemetery and there are no longer burials taking place there, etc., we decided to go for it. Since many of the footstones were still intact and tossed into the wooded area we simply played “Concentration” and matched them back up with their headstones. If a base was found, we reset it and if not, we buried the it atop the grave as we had originally planned.

The large headstone found in the woods with a fractured base was successfully reset and is a new benchmark for our group. A daunting task made simple by our outstanding crew. Our small team of four who braved the cool and threatening weather didn’t stop there. Divine intervention led us to discover that we had reset two headstones in exactly the right spots as we later found their accompanying footstones in those very places. Weird and wonderful.

To top off the day, we located a one-break headstone in the wooded area which had not been located previously (photo by Warren).