Tangential to the really interesting discussion on animal burials, plain,
unmarked fieldstones have also been used to mark the graves of
African-American and slave graves, as well as in other circumstances where
the financial resources were not available to purchase a custom headstone.
 I've also read that Quaker burials were also marked with undecorated
fieldstones.

Megan Springate


> Not elephants, BUT often on rural sites I've stumbled (sometimes
> literally)
> on what appear to be fieldstone grave markers.  In my own yard, our
> fieldstone markers denote pet burials.  Everyone (except Mr. McCoy, who
> was
> exhumed and moved to a now unidentified final resting place) is accounted
> for from my farmhouse, built in 1890; they are in official cemeteries.
>
> Anyone else had pet burials marked like that?
>
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> Subject: University archaeologists start Tregaron elephant dig
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>> Not quite sure what to think of this; maybe a useful training exercise
>> (PR?), but...
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13023965
>> What archaeological information can the grave of a circus elephant
>> reveal?
>> Something about burial customs for circus elephants in 19th c. Wales?
>
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