Sometimes, but not often, will be found engraved on a stone the suggestive fancy of an axe laid at the foot of a tree, or some metaphorical figure to the same intent. An instance occurs at Lewisham in which the idea is conveyed by the pick and shovel under a flourishing palm.
FIG. 48.—AT LEWISHAM.
"To Thomas Lambert, died Nov. 25, 1781,
aged 59 years."
A symbol so simple and yet so significant as this is scarcely to be surpassed. One almost in the same category is the following, a small anaglyph in Bunhill Fields Burial-ground, London.
FIG. 49.—AT BUNHILL FIELDS, LONDON.
"To Elizabeth Sharp, who died Oct. 20, 1752,
aged 31 years."