Where can I sell a gravestone?

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1. Halloween is coming up, put it in your front garden and make it look like a fresh grave.

2. Stealing gravestones ( especially from redundant churches) for laying as patios was, apparently very common on new housing estates built after WW2.

3. Is there a name on it? If so send out a load of emails to the name (@hotmail.co.uk .com @outlook.com etc) and see if anyone wants it

4. Can you look up the person and dates on ancestry and see if they have family?

5. Ebay.

   *Gravestone for sale. Would make an ideal present for someone called Edward Smith who was born in 1843 and died in 1902. Collection only.*

6. Out of interest, do you have any pics? Would love to see it!

7. Please tell me it’s got a name on it. That would be hilarious

8. Bit of a trick question.

   In theory you have little obligation to do anything with this.

   However you might be intruiged. I would be. Is there actually someone buried in your garden? If so, that’s more tricky, but interesting.

   Using burial stones for paving isn’t absurd but you haven’t said the context in which this was found, so it’s really hard to tell.

9. Alan Partridge joked about marble gravestones making good kitchen worktops.

   If it’s marble then turn it upside down and add an island to your kitchen?

10. Save it for a rainy day

11. If you sliced that three-wise and laid it end to end, you’d have the lions share of the work surface for a Poggenpohl kitchen.

12. I almost regret clicking this thread because it was great fun reading the title working out what turn of events lead you to have a surplus gravestone!

13. Great for Halloween

14. Ring the police. There is a body.