Combine an ancient burial vault with a simple piece of rock, and you get a heavy marker sitting above a skeleton's grave in a haunted yard. What am I?
A tombstone
An underground burial chamber or vault is known as a tomb, while a hard mineral fragment is a stone. Putting 'tomb' and 'stone' together creates 'tombstone,' the carved grave marker found in eerie graveyards.
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