A runestone is a large stone carved with runic inscriptions — usually in the early Germanic alphabet known as the futhark.

"The oldest marked gravesite goes back to 1905 and among ... "Our immediate problem is an unearthed grave, and the cemetery is heavily overgrown with tall grass and bushes. "Unfortunately, as ...

Michel's grave marker is a typical colonial style tombstone, but it is not likely that the ornate stone was made in the sparsely populated Biloxi of 1811. It is more likely that it was made in New ...