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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 823583" data-attributes="member: 53455">Still in the French province of Saintonge, which is also featured in my post of today in the “Post your black-and-white photos” section of the forum,  this is the old cemetery of the village of Aulnay, which sits behind the parochial church dedicated to Saint Peter. That church was built on a site where Pagan rites used to take place, and where at least one earlier church had been built, as archæology teaches us.Erected between 1120 and 1140, this church was listed as a Monument historique (“Historic Landmark”) on the very first list drawn up in 1840 under the ægis of Minister Prosper Mérimée. It is also listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, as it stands on a Path to Compostela, the Via Turonensis that comes from Paris, Chartres and Tours. Owing to its location, halfway between the cities of Poitiers and Saintes, Aulnay always was, and still remains today, a convenient stopover for pilgrims on the path.For obvious sanitary reasons, the cemetery has been decommissioned for a long time, but there are some very old tombs there, including sarcophagi from the Merovingian (5th–8th centuries) and Carolingian (8th–9th centuries) periods. Some may even be from the late Antiquity, around 300 or 400 CE. That is why the cemetery was allowed to remain as is.This is a composite photograph made up of two focus-stacked exposures for greater depth of field. Stack processed with Helicon Focus.Nikon Z7, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head.[ATTACH=full]409663[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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