Hello,
I am planning to do some restoration work in a Swafford Cemetery, in Monroe County
Indiana. This cemetery has a large stone stump that has fallen over:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=2371638&GR...
& . Does anyone have any information about what type of base these types of monument
should have? The stone stump is approximately six feet tall and 20 inches in diameter, at
the base. For a regular stacked memorial we would bury it six or eight inches in the
ground, but the stone stump is carved all the way to the bottom, and it would seem like a
waste of that effort to bury any of it. It was on a piece of limestone that settled to one
side, which made the monument fall.
Since we will have to work on the base anyway, I wanted to make sure the base was the
right size and the sand & gravel the right depth.
Thank you for you help
Scott Emery