FIG. 14.—AT HIGH HALSTOW.
"To Susan Barber." The date is buried, but
there is a similar stone close by dated
1699.
Nearer Rochester, at Frindsbury, there is the next illustration, still like a mask rather than a death's head, but making its purpose clear by the two bones, such as are nearly always employed in more recent productions.
FIG. 15.—AT FRINDSBURY.
"To William David Jones, died 1721."
There is, however, another at Higham of about the same date, in which, supposing a skull to be intended, the inspiration of the bones appears not to have caught the artist. The portrait theory may possibly better fit this case.
