Skip to comments.
Cat's gravestone fetches £200,000 at Sotheby's
UK Telegraph ^
| 12/12/04
| Will Bennett
Posted on 12/12/2004 1:33:43 PM PST by wagglebee
A stone marking a pet cat's grave fetched more than £200,000 at Sotheby's yesterday after experts said it was a 1,100-year-old Anglo-Saxon carving.
The relief depicting St Peter was found in a salvage yard 20 years ago by a stonemason, Johnny Beeston, who took it back to his home in Dowlish Wake, Somerset, where he and his wife Ruth decided it would make a headstone for their cat Winkle.
After Chris Brewchorne, an amateur archaeologist from the town, realised its significance as he walked past, experts identified it as probably part of a Christian cross from 900AD.
Yesterday an anonymous bidder paid £201,600 for Winkle's gravestone, four times the pre-sale estimate.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: anglosaxons; archaeology; archeology; christianity; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; saintpeter; sothebys
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-31 next last
1
posted on
12/12/2004 1:33:44 PM PST
by
wagglebee
To: SunkenCiv
2
posted on
12/12/2004 1:33:59 PM PST
by
wagglebee
(Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
To: wagglebee
I wonder what they would give for the whole dead cat?
3
posted on
12/12/2004 1:38:03 PM PST
by
OSHA
(Actual DUer - Kerry Won - Get Over It!!)
To: blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SunkenCiv; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 4ConservativeJustices; ...
Thanks wagglebee. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
4
posted on
12/12/2004 1:39:13 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
To: wagglebee
What a disappointment!
I expected to see R.I.P. Kitty... on it.
5
posted on
12/12/2004 1:39:35 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
To: OSHA
"it would make a headstone for their cat Winkle. "
Never mind. They already have one.
6
posted on
12/12/2004 1:42:18 PM PST
by
OSHA
(Actual DUer - Kerry Won - Get Over It!!)
To: PetroniDE
7
posted on
12/12/2004 1:42:29 PM PST
by
cyborg
(http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/flamelily.html)
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: wagglebee
To: OSHA
Must have been the gravestone of a "Viking Kitty".
10
posted on
12/12/2004 1:48:17 PM PST
by
stockpirate
(Check out my homepage and learn about sKerry and his Socialist friends.)
To: wagglebee
Looks like the guy on the headstone was a peacenik.
Or he was the inspiration for Winston Churchill during WW2.
11
posted on
12/12/2004 1:49:23 PM PST
by
exit82
(Righteousness exalts a nation...... Proverbs 14:34)
To: stockpirate
12
posted on
12/12/2004 1:50:14 PM PST
by
wagglebee
(Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
To: Angry Republican
Where did you get a picture of a cat doing gang signs?
/john
13
posted on
12/12/2004 1:56:04 PM PST
by
JRandomFreeper
(D@mit! I'm just a cook. Don't make me come over there and prove it!)
To: OSHA
I wonder what they would give for the whole dead cat? Would that be a Norwegian Blue (Hair)?
14
posted on
12/12/2004 1:56:27 PM PST
by
Grut
To: wagglebee
15
posted on
12/12/2004 1:59:05 PM PST
by
blam
To: wagglebee
The relief depicting St Peter... Darn cat people don't even know that a carving of St. Francis, or even Daniel (with really big
kitties) would be more apropos.
What a relief it must to get rid of it.
Maybe they can get one of those embedded picture monuments featuring a photo of Siegfried
and/or Roy as a replacement.
To: Grut
Are you hinting that the cat may not be dead but merely stuned?
17
posted on
12/12/2004 2:10:11 PM PST
by
OSHA
(Actual DUer - Kerry Won - Get Over It!!)
To: JRandomFreeper
Gang sign? Didn't see that. Just a random picture of a cat in response to this thread.
Second, click here for the cat pictures. I've used some pics as Viking Kitties.
To: Angry Republican
That cat is clearly doing a gang sign.
Excuse me, but I need to call the navy recruiter again...
/john
19
posted on
12/12/2004 2:33:52 PM PST
by
JRandomFreeper
(D@mit! I'm just a cook. Don't make me come over there and prove it!)
To: JRandomFreeper
Wow. Maybe you have something going there with the "gangster kitty."
BTW, I've gotten that response to my tagline a few times. I think it's working! :-)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-31 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson