Traditionally, ledger stones were placed on the graves of those who were reasonably well-to-do - yet not affluent enough to afford the expense of a carven tomb or sepulchre. As well as markers of status, ledger stones also made the desecration or robbery of the grave upon which they were laid a much more arduous task.
However, Horsingdon folklore proposes a different purpose to these weighty stones, noting that such artefacts are more often than not found upon the resting places of the region’s less reputable dead, where they prevent from rising that which sleeps only fitfully within the restrictive confines of the grave.
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