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  2. Monumental masonry - Wikipedia

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    Generally gravestones are highly polished with detailed engraving of text and symbols. Some memorials are more elaborate and may involve the sculpture of symbols associated with death, such as angels, hands joined in prayer, and vases of flowers. Some specially-made stones feature artistic lettering by letter cutters.

  3. Funerary art in Puritan New England - Wikipedia

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    Before the English colonies were fully established and had fully functioning economies, burial rituals were expensive; a relatively elaborate funeral in Boston in the 1720s would have cost around £100. [B] The headstones were a relatively small part of the overall expense; in the 1720s headstones ranged from £2 to over £40. [38]

  4. Gravestone - Wikipedia

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    Captain Andrew Drake (1684–1743) sandstone gravestone from the Stelton Baptist Church in Edison, New Jersey. A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave. A marker set at the head of the grave may be called a headstone. An especially old or elaborate stone slab may be called a funeral stele, stela, or slab.

  5. List of monumental masons - Wikipedia

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    Monument to Sir Charles Cotton, Admiral of the White (d.1812). [34] Monument to Mrs. E. Knight in All Saints Church (Milton, Cambridgeshire). [23] John Franklin (d.1831), English, "monumental mason of local note whose tablets frequently appear in east Wiltshire and neighbourhood". [35] John Frazee, carver active in mid-19th-century New York.

  6. Visitation stones - Wikipedia

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    Visitation stones on Jewish headstones. Marking a grave with stones was customary in Biblical times before the adoption of gravestones. [2] [1] The oldest graves in the Old Cemetery in Safed are piles of rocks with a more prominent rock bearing an inscription. [1] It is not customary in Judaism to leave flowers at a grave after visiting.

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