Daisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexafoil, Rosette

Robyn S. Lacy earned her PhD in Archaeology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She runs a historic gravestone preservation business with her husband in Newfoundland which takes them all across the island and beyond. Her first book Burial and Death in Colonial North America was published in 2020, and she regularly writes about her research on her website, spadeandthegrave.com.

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Introduction



Chapter 1. Protective Marks & Objects

Chapter 2. Hexfoils in a Mortuary Context

Chapter 3. The Reformation and Medieval Magics

Chapter 4. Survey of Protective Marks on Gravestones

Chapter 5. Results of Survey

Chapter 6. Modern Interpretations of the Hexfoil and other Protective Marks

Chapter 7. Protective Marks on Gravestones – Past and Present



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