Reused and recycled 3D Models

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In Scotland comparatively few medieval funerary monuments survive intact: many have been repurposed in their later years. In some cases this amounts tono more than reusing an old gravestone for a new burial by adding a new inscription, as on the coped stone at Airlie, the calvary slabs at Dunglass, and the West Highland effigy at Kimuir, Skye. At Restenneth a medieval cross-slab had a crude effigy and marginal inscription added in the 17th or 18th centuries. Others, cut or broken, were set up on end as headstones, as at Dunbar and Dunfermline. Often, as at Currie, stones are discovered in the course of dismantling a post-Reformation church, in which they had been reused as common building material. However, intact medieval slabs were particularly attractive to later masons as a source of ready cut and shaped stone to serve as sills and lintels, as can be seen at Abdie, Culross, Meathie, Ruthven and Westown.