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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 827335" data-attributes="member: 53455">The higher church of Saint–Floret (2016)The “higher” church (“l’église haute”) of the village Saint–Floret in Auvergne (central France) stands on a bare weather-beaten mountaintop quite a ways above the village and the “lower” church. Back in the day, one had to punish one’s body for the privilege of attending Mass... Nowadays, churches are well-lit and heated, but attendance is at an all-time low... Anyway, the higher church is not particularly old, its oldest parts date back from the 1200s, but the small cemetery around it includes some rare and very interesting man–shaped excavations that are very old Merovingian tombs from the so–called “Dark Ages”. Bodies were laid in those shallow graves and covered by a layer of earth one imagines rather thin, consolidated by boulders...People were noticeably smaller back then, yet one or two of those excavations were obviously for poor children. Child mortality was of course appalling by modern-day standards.Nikon D810, Nikkor 24mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens, handheld.[ATTACH=full]413324[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 827335, member: 53455"] [B]The higher church of Saint–Floret (2016)[/B] The “higher” church [I](“l’église haute”)[/I] of the village Saint–Floret in Auvergne (central France) stands on a bare weather-beaten mountaintop quite a ways above the village and the “lower” church. Back in the day, one had to punish one’s body for the privilege of attending Mass... Nowadays, churches are well-lit and heated, but attendance is at an all-time low... Anyway, the higher church is not particularly old, its oldest parts date back from the 1200s, but the small cemetery around it includes some rare and very interesting man–shaped excavations that are very old Merovingian tombs from the so–called “Dark Ages”. Bodies were laid in those shallow graves and covered by a layer of earth one imagines rather thin, consolidated by boulders... People were noticeably smaller back then, yet one or two of those excavations were obviously for poor children. Child mortality was of course appalling by modern-day standards. Nikon D810, Nikkor 24mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens, handheld. [ATTACH type="full"]413324[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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