Definition of "footstone" [foot•stone]

• A marking stone placed at the foot of a grave. (noun)

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• "But on the footstone are little scraps of paper that mourners have left, weighted with pebbles."
• "Some of them are really interesting headstones, and one of a child had a headstone, a footstone, and an odd globe like cement thing in the middle."
• "Edick was surprised to find the footstone and headstone bearing the initials “M.I.” in excellent condition, further astonished that the distance between the two stones was exactly 56 inches - or roughly Edick's height."