- Adventure
- A timed Solo or Group cemetery challenge. Finds score Adventure XP during that session.
- Bingo Adventure
- A randomized 3×3 or 5×5 Adventure card. A square requires photo and GPS evidence before it counts as a verified find.
- Cenotaph
- A memorial to a person or group whose remains are buried somewhere else, or were never recovered.
- Columbarium
- A structure containing niches for cremated remains.
- Collection
- A user-created set of cemetery things they want to notice or document, such as iron fences, symbols, statues or zinc monuments.
- Contribution
- A grave, monument or cemetery feature submitted by a user. Field Contributions require GPS and a photograph and are reviewed before publication.
- Discovery
- A mapped Grave Discoveries location or story that a player can locate using a clue and GPS.
- Epitaph
- Words inscribed on a grave marker in memory of the deceased.
- Family Plot
- An area of a cemetery containing graves belonging to members of the same family, often marked by a family monument or boundary.
- Family Quest
- A search for the grave of a relative or other named person. The request can be shared with friends or opened to public helpers.
- Footstone
- A smaller marker placed at the foot of a grave, sometimes bearing initials or a short inscription.
- Headstone / Grave Marker
- A monument identifying a grave. Materials and forms vary widely by period, culture and cemetery.
- Ledger Stone
- A flat stone covering much or all of the grave surface, often inscribed.
- Mausoleum
- A building or substantial above-ground structure containing human remains in crypts.
- Niche
- A compartment, commonly in a columbarium, used to hold cremated remains.
- Obelisk
- A tall, four-sided tapering monument ending in a pyramidal point, popular in nineteenth-century cemeteries.
- Tour
- A guided Grave Discoveries experience with an ordered walking route, stories and optional audio narration.
- White Bronze / Zinker
- A cast-zinc cemetery monument marketed historically as “White Bronze.” The Monumental Bronze Co. described its material as pure cast zinc and promoted raised lettering, removable tablets and cast ornament. Source: Monumental Bronze Co. catalogue, 1882.
- XP
- Experience points used as a record of activity and friendly competition in Grave Discoveries.
The glossary will grow as Grave Discoveries expands into more cemeteries, regions and traditions. Terms can vary by country, religion and cemetery.
