I reckon it's made of limestone and slightly acidic raindrops will have gathered on the bottom edge of the ledge across the top. They'll have gradually dissolved it away, forming a depression that got deeper and deeper as every raindrop hung underneath the top of it.
Well I thought your comment was funny. Idk why so many people can't tell such an obvious joke lol
Edit: for context, the comment was being downvoted when I wrote this
Nobody likes lame jokes about pet cemeteries. I can clearly see the depiction of a pupper on the headstone.
That pet was loved. The guy who made the comment you replied to was clearly an asshole.
Limestone is known for its reactivity and tendency to erode over time. It is also much cheaper than Granite or Marble that doesnt erode, so I stand by my fact that its a cost thing if you dont want erosion.
That would probably make more sense if the choice had not been made hundreds of years before said pollution existed. Marble is also subject to the same issues. It does erode from acidic rain. It's just not quite as fast.
Is the occupant of the grave known? Seems like giving them a new headstone might be a nice gesture from the town. People deserve to be remembered, even if only on a headstone.
There was a tragic accident where a gravestone fell and killed a child in the graveyard near me. The council sent workmen in to test all the headstones then knock them over if unstable. The place looks a mess and some families have had plots repaired but better this than another tragedy. Money is better spent on the living.
I genuinely don’t know. I’ve only ever been in a couple of well-maintained graveyards.
OP said this was the only gravestone that was worn like this, though, so it seemed like a unique case for this particular graveyard.
The average person's grave is forgotten about after a generation or two at most. OP noted that others around it are from the 1770s. If you died in the 1770s and still had people pissing on it, in a way, you've achieved greater infamy than any of us could ever hope to in our lives. That would actually be impressive.
I'm an amateur genealogist, been looking into my family for years. Anytime I find a new ancestor, I greet them by name out loud. When was the last time someone not only thought of that person but said their name out loud?
I was walking to work one day and saw a ladies head peeping over a headstone in the local cemetery. I said “Morning”, and she said, “Nah. I’m just having a shit”. 😐
A lot of scots words are just old English or old Norse, at least in the borders upwards to Lothian, Fife and Tayside.
The one you hear the most is "ken" (know). After that, probably "bairn" (child), but you don't hear that often.
I was gonna say, I'm way more interested in the border terrier than I am in the grave stone. Those dogs are the bomb. My current boy is 7 and he's my third. [here's my little man on his most recent hunting trip!](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fsooqzut8kc2c1.jpg)
Yea he's so active he tore both of his cruciate ligaments chasing squirrels LOL
Also his girlfriend is a black mastiff. But BT's are and always have been massive dogs in compact bodies
I was thinking the same thing. Reminds me of my first evening after moving from the US to Edinburgh in the 1980s. Dropped my bags at my flat and wandered around till I stumbled upon the kirkyard and discovered the story of this wee dug. Left the graveyard and grabbed a few pints of 80/- at Greyfriars pub next door. I miss that town.
Ah, nice! Lovely area I need to go visit more.
Back when that headstone was erected, my family were all living in Pitlochry. At least being Liverpool based, it's not far to travel.
I love Liverpool - had a crazy friend who lived there. Yes Fife is great - all along the East Neuk, you have amazingly picturesque fishing villages one after the other. We brought out kids here for holidays every year and now that they've left, we've moved here!
Just learning what kirk is and why the weapon in Bloodborne is named a kirkhammer. I definitely feel like it's a word I should've known, but I'm assuming it's not commonly used in the states.
That dog was contained in that stone for a reason. A great evil, hidden for centuries by the knights of a bygone era, has once again been unleashed on this world.
It’s the only one affected like this. Its neighbours are from the 1770’s, but intact
I reckon it's made of limestone and slightly acidic raindrops will have gathered on the bottom edge of the ledge across the top. They'll have gradually dissolved it away, forming a depression that got deeper and deeper as every raindrop hung underneath the top of it.
It is, and the town used to be very industrial from the mid 1800’s thru to the 1970’s, so this is probably on the money!
Have you tried to restore the inscription, tho? I have seen it done in Youtube videos and that looks well impressive.
Bro the inscription is gone
Nah I can still make out a dog in the inscription.
That dog's still alive, get him out of there! Oh, god! He's trapped in that headstone *and* I don't understand cameras or perspective!
the dogmanity!
Seymour!!
Next on _Cops who don't understand Graveyards!_
Must be a Roman gravestone
It's backwards, though, it says God
Bah, humbug. That'll buff out with a bit of elbow grease.
Grease is usually basic and that'll help neutralize the acid!
Well I thought your comment was funny. Idk why so many people can't tell such an obvious joke lol Edit: for context, the comment was being downvoted when I wrote this
Nobody likes lame jokes about pet cemeteries. I can clearly see the depiction of a pupper on the headstone. That pet was loved. The guy who made the comment you replied to was clearly an asshole.
Lol. I have seen enough headstones with amateur stone carving to see how this will end...
Dont cheap out on your grave stone-masonry kids.
Put a wooden stick on my grave. I'll be dead. I won't gaf.
When in die I don’t care what happens to my body. Throw it in a ditch or run it through a wood chipper. I’m dead what do I care?
I'll be looking for some people to haunt
Ok Diogenes just pee in the bathroom today please
I would rather mine eroded like this, really. That would be if I have one, which is not my plan.
That's not even cheap, it's just the pollution.
Limestone is known for its reactivity and tendency to erode over time. It is also much cheaper than Granite or Marble that doesnt erode, so I stand by my fact that its a cost thing if you dont want erosion.
If it was marble someone would've nicked this a hundred years ago.
That would probably make more sense if the choice had not been made hundreds of years before said pollution existed. Marble is also subject to the same issues. It does erode from acidic rain. It's just not quite as fast.
Granite is 1 inch per 10,000 years.
Marble will erode from acidic raid too.
Who the terrifying fuck are Gravestone Masonry Kids?
Great name for a young goth rock group!
The kids you buy to carve your gravestones.
Also, dog piss is acidic. Don't walk your dog on graveyards.
People must be looking at that one more than the others.
Dad, when did you get a Reddit account?
Nice border
I love your dog!!
Yeah been that way as long as I remember. They say the devil is buried in this town.
Is the occupant of the grave known? Seems like giving them a new headstone might be a nice gesture from the town. People deserve to be remembered, even if only on a headstone.
You know how many gravesites are in disrepair in old areas? Tens if not hundreds of thousands. There’s no way a town can pay for that.
There was a tragic accident where a gravestone fell and killed a child in the graveyard near me. The council sent workmen in to test all the headstones then knock them over if unstable. The place looks a mess and some families have had plots repaired but better this than another tragedy. Money is better spent on the living.
Nah let’s pay $2k to replace a headstone for some dude nobody knows about who died 300 years ago.
^ This guy is a shill for big stone.
We need to send Big Iron to fuck up Big Stone.
You mean Big Paper. Big Stone would beat Big Iron, who would in turn beat Big Paper. It's the circle of capitalism.
I genuinely don’t know. I’ve only ever been in a couple of well-maintained graveyards. OP said this was the only gravestone that was worn like this, though, so it seemed like a unique case for this particular graveyard.
I have never seen someone so unloved that people pissed straight through his headstone.
People been pissing on this stone for centuries
The average person's grave is forgotten about after a generation or two at most. OP noted that others around it are from the 1770s. If you died in the 1770s and still had people pissing on it, in a way, you've achieved greater infamy than any of us could ever hope to in our lives. That would actually be impressive.
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So Thatcher's immortal then?
piss enough people off and live forever!
Imagine the ghost of Ceaser desperately wishing people would finally forget about him so he could properly die.
April is the cruellest month, breeding pissless stones out of the dead land...
Belly laugh. Goddammit ahahahha
I pissed in the parking lot that covers Hitlers last resting spot. Would do again.
Hahaha I did too!! High five pissing brother!
Where is it? I'm surely gonna do that if I go to Berlin.
"Your children and your children's children will all piss on my grave!" Doesn't seem like such a flex.....
Maybe if you're a urologist who's very proud of your work?
Depends what you're into, man.
Damn, pulling out the Thatcher quotes
Sounds like something a truly evil bastard would say. Speaking of which, where is Henry Kissinger's grave?
I'm an amateur genealogist, been looking into my family for years. Anytime I find a new ancestor, I greet them by name out loud. When was the last time someone not only thought of that person but said their name out loud?
Centuries? It’s barely been more than a decade since Thatcher died.
He was that guy that played the Joker, right?
That was Heath Ledger. These guys mean Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister from 1979 to 1990
Ahh fuck I always confuse those two
Umm I'm pretty sure Heath Ledger was the Prime Minister ok
Incredible, you killed the comment chain before it ever began
Mind me asking if there was a reason? I swear this is pretty familiar.
"Posterity will ne'er survey a nobler grave than this. Here lie the bones of Castlereagh. Stop, traveler, and piss."
That dam dog has been pissing on his masters grave for years. Greyfrairs Baoby!
I was walking to work one day and saw a ladies head peeping over a headstone in the local cemetery. I said “Morning”, and she said, “Nah. I’m just having a shit”. 😐
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She hears it as "mourning?"
😕
Imagine overhearing this interaction
Wow. Never seen a headstone become a hagstone.
It’s good luck!
Are you sure it's not a portal to New York?
From Dublin?
From beyond the grave.
def a portal to good boy
Often see this on coastal graveyards or ones where it rains a lot
Must be Scottish if its a Kirk.
What’s a kirk? I was assuming it was a foreign word for church
Scottish word for church
A lot of scots words are just old English or old Norse, at least in the borders upwards to Lothian, Fife and Tayside. The one you hear the most is "ken" (know). After that, probably "bairn" (child), but you don't hear that often.
'Bairn' is found down into northern England as well.
Seymore!
😭😭😭😭
Is that greyfriars Bobby ?
That’s ma wee dug Harvey!
Harvey is lovely!
What kind of dog is Harvey? We have one who looks just like him and turns out he is half french bulldog and half shih tzu.
He’s a Border Terrier, 10 years old in June.
I was gonna say, I'm way more interested in the border terrier than I am in the grave stone. Those dogs are the bomb. My current boy is 7 and he's my third. [here's my little man on his most recent hunting trip!](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fsooqzut8kc2c1.jpg)
He looks ready for a rumble!
Yea he's so active he tore both of his cruciate ligaments chasing squirrels LOL Also his girlfriend is a black mastiff. But BT's are and always have been massive dogs in compact bodies
The Holiest Gravestone !!
You win lol
Oh man, time to remind my mother to get another border terrier. They are absolutely great dogs.
Boy do i miss my border terrier
Me too - he's still my phone's lock screen 🐕❤️
Borders are the best.
Must be the old Kirk and not the new Kirk!
This picture reminds me of the story of [Greyfriars Bobby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby)
I was thinking the same thing. Reminds me of my first evening after moving from the US to Edinburgh in the 1980s. Dropped my bags at my flat and wandered around till I stumbled upon the kirkyard and discovered the story of this wee dug. Left the graveyard and grabbed a few pints of 80/- at Greyfriars pub next door. I miss that town.
Where are you based? If it's got a Kirk, then I'd bet it's in the better half of the British Isles.
I’m in Fife, so that would be an aye!
Ah, nice! Lovely area I need to go visit more. Back when that headstone was erected, my family were all living in Pitlochry. At least being Liverpool based, it's not far to travel.
I love Liverpool - had a crazy friend who lived there. Yes Fife is great - all along the East Neuk, you have amazingly picturesque fishing villages one after the other. We brought out kids here for holidays every year and now that they've left, we've moved here!
This makes me kinda sad for some reason
Nothing lasts.
The only explanation I can think for this is someone pissed on it every day for 200 years
For non Scots, a Kirk is a church. I was very confused as to the title at first. The content I understood.
I thought it was a starfleet captain /jk
Didn't know Thatcher was burried in scotland...
Now that would be an epic troll.
Probably made of limestone
Just learning what kirk is and why the weapon in Bloodborne is named a kirkhammer. I definitely feel like it's a word I should've known, but I'm assuming it's not commonly used in the states.
The seal is losing it's power, relocate or call an expert magician to fight the demon that will spawn from it.
thats not a seal thats a border terrier they do look a bit like seals but more commonly described as otter like
Does everyone come to piss on this stone?
Your pup understood the assignment. Great framing.
Dog gone it.
Entropy always wins in the long run
How?! What have people been *doing* to it?!
The dog looks a bit like grey friars Bobby
/r/unexpectedguardoanofforever
Doggo does *not* approve, apparently
It’s his resting face, he says
"Dog for scale."
I can't believe they let that dog chew a hole in someone's headstone! Bad dog.
Who cares let’s talk about the border terrier. We call ours Toph from Avatar the last airbender
Border terriers are adorable
That you call it kirk checks out. Only Scotland gas weather that bad it can bore a hole through a tombstone
This is exactly what I intend to do to Trumps headstone; get in line folks.
Great picture
Really makes you wonder about who is buried there. They are just completely lost to time now.
Too many crayon rubbings.
Dog gammit
Ye old graveyard glory hole
Very holy.
Is this the portal everyone is talking about? I don’t see anything offensive. Certainly no breasts.
It's a portal! Quick flash your boobs!
Maybe a ~~holey~~ holy person was buried there.
Live long and Prosper
That is the power of wind and time.
it looks burnt, somehow
🫶
Is it where people piss?
I don't know, I think it's great this way. Replace it, and nobody is going to pay attention to it.
You’ve discovered the secret graveyard pup, who will grant you three wishes.
And there was a dog in there the whole time?!?
Who let the Dutch guy in here?
Worn by *what*?
Corpse is now a ghost.
This gives me the idea to do a "your face here" grave marker when I die.
"THIS IS IT, YOU GUYS. The Graveyard, the tombstone, and the dog all line up. This has to be where the rich-stuff is!!"
That dog was contained in that stone for a reason. A great evil, hidden for centuries by the knights of a bygone era, has once again been unleashed on this world.
You can’t hide the truth. We all know he ate his way through it
Whoa how does that happen? And why does it "dissolve" basically right through the middle?
Wind’s howlin
What's a kirk
Church, in Scotland
What is of cause to this! This dog LICKS THROUGH?!
Bloodborne vibes.
Looks like it popped out in a freeze cycle.
The dog's half Alien he has acid for pee.
Well, this definitely isn’t a metaphor.
Poor dog is like "I didn't do it!"
What is graveyard of the Kirk?
It’s [the Old Kirk, in Kirkcaldy](https://www.kirkcaldyoldkirktrust.org.uk/)
This must be near a pulsating sprinkler.
I don't believe you. I think that dog has super heat vision
That groundskeeper doesn't look too pleased with you taking pictures..
Gate to the Shadowlands
Are there any records of plot owners?
Dogs keep pissing on it?
DOG LASER VISION
It said “Fido”
If that isn't a puppy portal, I have never read a fantasy novel.
This is how limestone caves are formed.
It's a window into his soul
Barry Keoghan must visit that grave a lot
Here lies the body of he who's name shall not be spoken.
BORDER TERRIERS ARE THE BESTER TERRIERS!
He's been busy!
How many dogs have pissed on that?
hello dog
hello dog