ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses two examples of post-Reformation battlefield memorials to the seventeenth-century civil wars in England, and the Killing Times in Scotland, and demonstrates the inclusions and exclusions of the inscriptions incised on those commemorative memorial stones erected. It focuses on two Protestant sites–a battlefield at Naseby in Northamptonshire, and a site of summary execution at Wigtown in Dumfriesshire Galloway–that have a long history of memorialisation, commemoration, and pilgrimage spanning four centuries. The chapter also demonstrates the ways in which these sites form an integral part of each community's invisible consolation landscape in the wake of such conflicts. It explores collective memorialisation as well as 'individual mappings of bereaved people's experiences of significant spaces/places'. The chapter addresses the gendered realities of memory and landscapes as sites of consolation, and the practices of histories and history writing, when compared with the material culture of the stone monuments erected over time.
