r/CemeteryPreservation

Here is some of the cleaning/ restorations of my local cemetery over the past few months. I can proudly say that nearly all monuments requiring new bases have got them and now I’ll wait till spring to start the process of reattaching broken monuments. AKA I lack the proper materials atm. 1 is before 2 and 3 after. 4 is before 5 and 6 after. 7 has no before and 8 is a previously unmarked civil war veteran who is now marked. Also enjoy the bonus photo at the end, took it after working in the cemetery one day.

I'd like to update the sub on a year and a half progress on the cleaning of my parents' headstone. You can see how it looks today, which is really remarkable. Just two cleanings and waiting about a year for the last cleaning to do its work produced incredible results. Here is the original post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CemeteryPreservation/s/8VkotzRtS5

Thanks for all the advice I find here on this sub.

Can anyone decipher this UK gravestone? I believe they died in 1615. Really struggling to decipher anything apart from presumably the date of death. Apparently at this time the letter/number I & J were interchangeable so example Joan could be spelled Ioan. There is also a strange A & T letter combined into one unless it was a carving mistake?