Stone rubbing
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Stone rubbing is the practice of creating an image of surface features of a stone on paper. The image records features such as natural textures, inscribed patterns or lettering. By rubbing hard render
Stone rubbing at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
A National Park Service volunteer kneels and uses paper and a graphite stick to create a rubbing of a name from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
A stone rubbing (graphite on paper) for documentation of a petroglyph
Stone rubbing of anthropomorphic stele no 10, Sion, Petit-Chasseur necropolis, Neolithic
Gravestone
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A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually made of stone, that is placed over a grave. A marker set at the head of the grave may be called a headstone. An especially old or elaborate stone slab ma
Stone rubbing
…everything else is black from the ink. More commonly, people use butcher paper to create stone rubbings. The paper is typically taped onto the stone or gravestone with masking or painter's tape, over the desired inscription. Charcoal or crayon is then rubbed across the surface, leaving the engravings untouched…
Captain Andrew Drake (1684–1743) sandstone gravestone from the Stelton Baptist Church in Edison, New Jersey
A tombstone at the grave of Paavo Ruotsalainen (1777–1852) in Nilsiä, Kuopio, Finland
The Maymūnah Stone, a tombstone with an Arabic inscription dated 1174 on a reused Roman marble block. Now exhibited at the Gozo Museum of Archaeology in Malta.
Slate gravestone of Josiah Leavitt (1679–1717), Hingham Center Cemetery, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts