footstone

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/ ˈfʊtˌstoʊn /

a stone placed at the foot of a grave.

Masonry. a kneeler at the foot of a gable.

Words nearby footstone

1875–80; foot + stone. Cf. headstone

I held out for some time for the addition of a footstone at least.
Wessex Tales|Thomas Hardy
This same cipher is repeated on the footstone, and is evidently intentional.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847|Various
Grave e.—Simply a headstone and footstone, with the skeleton of a very small child between them; head east.
Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States|Cyrus Thomas