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  2. Visitation stones - Wikipedia

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    The act of placing visitation stones is significant in Jewish bereavement practices. Small stones are placed by people who visit Jewish graves in an act of remembrance or respect for the deceased. The practice is a way of participating in the mitzvah (commandment) of burial. It is customary to place the stone with the left hand. [1]

  3. List of types of funerary monument - Wikipedia

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    Sarcophagus (ornate types, otherwise being any stone-built receptacle) Recumbent effigy; Rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel; Stone ship; Church monuments. English church monuments; Ledger stone; Monumental brass; Funerary hatchment; Memorial cross; War memorial; Roadside memorial "Eternal flame" Cultural precursors to burial/cremation. Mortuary ...

  4. Cairn - Wikipedia

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    In Highland folklore it is recounted that before Highland clans fought in a battle, each man would place a stone in a pile. Those who survived the battle returned and removed a stone from the pile. The stones that remained were built into a cairn to honour the dead. [citation needed] Cairns in the region were also put to vital practical use.

  5. English church monuments - Wikipedia

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    A church monument is an architectural or sculptural memorial to a deceased person or persons, located within a Christian church. It can take various forms ranging from a simple commemorative plaque or mural tablet affixed to a wall, to a large and elaborate structure, on the ground or as a mural monument, which may include an effigy of the ...

  6. Funerary art - Wikipedia

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    Akan peoples of West Africa commissioned nsodie memorial heads of royal personages. The funeral ceremonies of the Indigenous Australians typically feature body painting; the Yolngu and Tiwi people create carved pukumani burial poles from ironwood trunks, [91] while elaborately carved burial trees have been used in south-eastern Australia. [92]

  7. Monumental masonry - Wikipedia

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    An example of a signed and dated maker's mark on a wall-mounted memorial to Mary Carpenter in Bristol Cathedral sculpted by monumental mason J. Havard Thomas of London Monumental masonry (also known as memorial masonry ) is a kind of stonemasonry focused on the creation, installation and repairs of headstones (also known as gravestones and ...