Template:Did you know nominations/Murder stone


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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:22, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Murder stone

 * ... that historically in Great Britain murder stones (example pictured) were erected to mark the locations of unlawful killings? "Dr Bondeson has documented several further murder stones across the English counties, and one early example of the type in Scotland."
 * ALT1:... that one murder stone, dated 1817, blames the female victim for having "incautiously repaired to a scene of amusement, without proper protection"? "Bessie's stone simply honours the memory of the dead girl, but another stone erected to a female victim of violence has more of a moral tone, seemingly warning women against certain behaviour as much as expressing anger with the killer.  "As a warning to Female Virtue, and a humble Monument to Female Chastity: this Stone marks the Grave of MARY ASHFORD, who, in the twentieth year of her age, having incautiously repaired to a scene of amusement, without proper protection, was brutally violated and murdered on the 27th of May, 1817."" (BBC News)
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/NMS Regele Ferdinand
 * Comment: Image only for first hook

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 10:22, 1 November 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg article is new enough (moved to main space on Nov 1), long enough (2400 characters of prose), and written within policy. Both hooks are interesting to a broad audience and short enough. I prefer Alt1, but Alt0 is good too. The picture, if used, is sufficiently tagged and freely licensed. QPQ is done. « Gonzo fan2007   (talk)  @ 20:58, 2 November 2018 (UTC)