Illustrated armour terminology guide
A set of detailed illustrations showing the various terminology used to describe armour. With many thanks to Mark Downing FSA for allowing use of these illustrations.
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This will guide you to some key web sites, mainly of other organisations working on aspects of tomb carvings and the art of commemoration. It would be impossible to list all the web sites that might have relevant material on tomb carvings. These are the web sites of some of the other individuals and organisations working to care for and understand different aspects of the art of commemoration.
Key books on monuments
Here you will find a guide to some useful publications. This is not an exhaustive bibliography on tomb carvings. It lists a few introductory books, some key modern studies and some twentieth-century surveys.
Geology
Stone is the popular and collective term for all the solid constituents of the Earth's crust with the exception of ice. Geologists would use the term rock; however the term stone will generally continue to be used here. Rock is a natural mixture of minerals; for example granites consist of a mixture of three different minerals.
Glossary of terms
This guide explains the specialised terms of medieval armour and architecture used when talking about tomb carvings. We plan to expand this with terms used for clothing and ecclesiastical vestments, and some of the other technical terms used in describing effigies.
Symbolism on monuments
Carvings on tombs can be strange and puzzling. This guide explains the meanings of many of the symbols used on post-medieval gravestones.