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From: "colleen morrison" <>
Subject: Re: Wrabness, cage in graveyard
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 01:05:23 +0100
References: <200409280722.i8S7MMFp005831@mail.rootsweb.com>


Thanks to everyone who replied to my query about this! A bell cage, I should
have known it was one of those. I was up on the roof of the tower of the
Moot Hall in Maldon quite recently and was photographing the bell cage up
there.

There's a wonderful view from the Maldon tower.

Colleen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:22 AM
Subject: RE: Wrabness, cage in graveyard


> Yes..there IS one at Wix! I was there about 3 wks ago....huge cage
> encasing
> a huge bell. Well worth going to see
>
> The only thing disappointing about Wix's lovely churchyard was the state
> of
> the farther reaches of it away from the church building itself...I got
> completely caught up in nettles and brambles and underfoot was very
> dicey...very sad for such a lovely church.
>
>
> Jo
> www genogold com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Essex Research [mailto:]
> Sent: 28 September 2004 07:06
> To:
> Subject: Re: Wrabness, cage in graveyard
>
> Hi,
>
> It is a wooden bell cage to house the one bell. Built, they think, in the
> 17th or 18th century.
> Glynis
> I think there's another one at Wix?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: colleen morrison
>
>
> On the 'Essex images' picture site, there's a photo of Wrabness graveyard
> which shows a sort of wooden cage in between the graves. Would anyone know
> what it is - an unusual tomb cover?
> I've never seen one like this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Colleen
>
>
>

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