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Virtual Tour of the Sweet Briar Plantation Burial Ground

Cluster G	Context within the cemetery

The chart below illustrates two possible alignments for the bodies (indicated as approximately six foot-long gray rectangles to suggest the size and shape of a coffin). The two green circles are standing trees and are too young to have been present in the 19th Century.

Four graves with occasional paired head and foot stones.	Five graves, each stone marks a separate grave.

Photographs of the Individual Stones

Stone 7	Stone 8	Stone 9
Stone 10	Stone 11

The stones in this part of the cemetery are flat lying, long rectangles. Their style is distinct from the upright markers in the eastern portion of the cemetery. Although few of these stones are carved, the choice of differently shaped stones may have signalled different familial or status groups.