Dear All,

During site visits for my Masters research I visited the military 
graveyard at Fort Willshire. This graveyard is situated in the Great 
Fish Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

At this graveyard every one of the gravestones faced away from the 
postion the body was buried. So if you stand at the foot of the grave 
they headstone is blank, but if you stand behind the headstone you find 
the inscription. These gravestones all date from the beginning of the 
19th Century. In addition to this a colleague of mine at the 
Bloemfontein Museum, Gerda Coetzee, also came across the same thing in 
Afrikaner graveyards dating from the end of the 19th Century to the 
beginning of the 20th Century.

Please could you let myself and Gerda know if you have come across 
similar instances and what the possible meaning for this phenomena is?
In addition to this I would appreciate it if you could let me know if 
their is any literature on the subject

Kind Regards
Debbie Palk
UNISA MA Candidate