He wrote words on the face of each burial marker, and in one case simply a question mark.

At age 27, he was, according to his burial marker, "one of the oldest authenticated dogs in the country".

Although it has been suggested that the monuments themselves are burial markers, only three sculptures have been found directly associated with human remains.

However, since most potbelly monuments were not found in their original locations it is impossible to know whether they originally served as burial markers.

It was a stairway under a nomad burial marker, leading into a dank tunnel that in turn led to the main vault.

There are also many field stones often used as burial markers with no inscriptions as well as a plain wooden cross.

If he didn't--and quickly--both pieces and a large chunk of ceiling would become his ignoble burial marker.

When John F. Kennedy was buried, Robert Kennedy had argued for a simple white cross for a burial marker.

And there on the beach, four bone-white specks caught my eye, their forms growing larger and sharper, until at last they resolved themselves into something I could recognize: simple wooden burial markers.

Another account credits Father Hennepin with giving this region the French name St Croix (Holy Cross) because of the burial markers located at the mouth of the river.

The cemetery's wooden burial markers had deteriorated by the time Route 37 was constructed, and environmental studies that would have indicated the location of the cemetery were not conducted prior to the expressway's construction.

Capt. John Jeffries Burial Marker is an historic burial monument in the cemetery at Scullville Bible Church, Somers Point, New Jersey.

They are the burial markers of seven prisoners of war - one German and six Italians - who died during their internment during World War II at what was then known as Pine Camp.

For half a century before the Persians invaded, the Lydians of west-central Anatolia had been burying their rulers in stone chamber tombs under monumental tumulus burial markers, a form borrowed in part from the Phrygians.

The report stated that cemetery officials had completed photographing and documenting every burial marker at Arlington and double-checked the photographic records against the cemetery's 500,000 paper records (which had also been scanned and were now available electronically).