sentences:  Often the husband's initials were on the left and the wife's were on the right.Usually carved into stone or sometimes wood, they can be very detailed, with usually only the initials of the married couple, the date of the marriage and sometimes the coat of arms of the 
  two families, just those of the husband and very rarely the combined coats of arms of both families.In some cases the adornment was religious in nature, such as at 'The Hill' farm mansion house (see photograph) or an artistic design simply placed there as an ornamentation.