I guess my question also is.. has anyone ever seen anything like this before at all? another person said it was just a fancy block. But there is only a few in the basement that I can see of.

and I can't view the other side because it goes under the porch which is all cement.

As far as a headstone, what is the size and thickness of it. At that time, there was no standard sizing for monuments, as each was hand cut to each order. At least that is how is was with our company in the late 19th century, up to WW!!. Fresh (relative) chisel marks would be an indication that it ...

1840 Ohio. I would think it may be some local stone. Hard telling. It may be that there were some commercial buildings with the same stone & the stone used for house foundations may have been excess from those larger projects. I doubt anyone on 1840 Ohio imported marble or granite for house foundat...

The cinder block is only about 3 foot high around the whole house, then sandstone / other block / rocks is under that around the house. It looks like they did it the raise it up maybe.

I just found the stone in the wall of the foundation of the basement of a house that is older than 1840 from ohio in the united states. There is a few of them. Its strange because you have all this cinder block then a few of those in the wall. And one guy who is half right haha half of the time said...

Whats a Coast green? Can you please tell more about it

anyone know what type of stone this is? is this a grave marker?