frontal face is susceptible to this type of impact so as to open into each of the apertures furthermore the decorative face will at all times present a closed face to any viewer so that there will only be necessarily a commemorative plaque or a plain decorative face presented to any mourner this is shown most clearly in fig4 where there is an illustrative arrangement showing the commemorative plaque 10 positioned over open apertures it will be seen that the stone slabs 1 and 2 are surrounded by the decorative cladding material there being an upper sheet of marble 11 and side sheet 12 this then describes the first preferred embodiment which is the desirable method by which the invention can be carried out however the drilling into a high quality marble slab may be considered by some to be an expensive process and there is also the preparation necessary for a decorative frontal face that is the face must be polished and the various sheets of cladding must be prepared suitably and therefore while being a very long lasting monument and an arrangement for holding cremation ashes there are other means by which the invention can be carried out which are perhaps slightly cheaper fig5 illustrates one manner of otherwise carrying out the invention which includes having apertures 14 which are cast so as to have an.