I am working on cataloguing Murder Stones!
These were stone memorials placed where someone was killed, especially in the UK. Most of them are 18th-19th century. Some are lost.
After watching a YouTube video about it and finding there was no definitive list, I registered https://murder-stones.org on Friday night and fired up claude code. There is very little on Wikipedia. I'm collating all the snippets i can find. There are a bunch of references I have collected which I'm sorting through with claude which has now run out of credits!
I have been more focused on finding new stones than fleshing out the stories so far. I have a pile of sources.
I have been researching manually for tidbits and feeding them to claude and asking what else it can find. It could find 8 to begin with but my research has got me up to around 33. There are some artifacts of that process still on the site... but it's day 2.
Its still a bit janky, but it's only day 2 really. Stack is a csv file of maybes, being sorted into sqlite, generating a static site with a python script, push to github, host on netlify. I also have a quick local flask app to enable me to hand edit the db and force a rebuild
I would love to hear about any leads!
Might be worth getting your licencing decided to let your contributors know exactly what their rights are.
As it stands it looks like everything contributed is owned by you with full copyright dispite the footer calling it a "public field archive"
> I have a pile of sources.
Gathering from open sources and then putting the content behind a Copyright © 2026 Murder Stones isn't ideal.
Correct. Not that anyone has submitted anything. I intend it to be creative commons by the end of the week! I just need a moment to read the licences etc.