It's that season again: the season where marriages break up and sluts roam the Earth dressed in slutty slut costumes (I personally will be going as Slutty Emperor Palpatine.) Kids seek out strangers with candy and the animal shelters have to stop selling black cats for a few weeks.
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SPOOKY!!
Gravestones were historically only available for the well-to-do. According to by exhaustive three minutes of Internet research, the classic stand-up headstone will run you around 1,000 USD, or in my medieval setting, about 10 GP*. This is likely more money than any peasant family could collect over the course of a lifetime.
*nb: I am on a copper piece standard. Multiply the prices here by 100 for your gold standard game.
A simpler flat grave marker could be as cheap as $250, or 25 SP. This would be possible for ten peasants to scrape up if they saved for a while.
An elaborate carving like the one in the picture above might cost 10,000 or even 25,000 USD. Mausoleums typically start at 200,000 USD and can rise to a million or more (2,000 to 10,000 GP).
The broader application of this kind of stonework is that these miniliths can mark any manner of places in a regular, permanent way. The boundaries of land or lands; of towns and even baronies. They might be mile stones on a main road or small shrines to minor gods and goddesses in your Realm. Certainly major street signs and markers for battles. Simple statuary.
For more information on the history and prices of grave stones and similar stonework, try these sites:
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