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Murder Stones

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A crowdsourced field archive of roadside memorial stones marking violent deaths across Britain and Ireland.

Why it surfaced

This unusually focused archive documents a fading landscape tradition: stones inscribed with names, dates, causes of death, and moralising verse. Its plain-text directory invites walkers, local historians, and anyone with an old transcription to record stones that may be weathered, moved, or already lost.

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