The old stone slabs which traders used to cut and sell meat and other produce, like cloth, have been preserved.

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The casket was lowered into a grave and covered with stone slabs, as wailing crowds jostled around the burial site.

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"Many of the dead were hit by flying debris of broken walls and stone slabs that were flung on to the streets due to the explosion, " witness Maung Win told the Associated Press.

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"It's one of the largest and finest in the collection of early medieval carved stone grave slabs and crosses to be found at Iona Abbey, " he said.

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Or hit up Nobu, one of the many outposts of the famed sushi dynasty, where Russian models and Armani-clad businessmen dine on slabs of rich fatty tuna sashimi at a long stone bar.

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