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I live in an area where there are a significant number of partly historic graveyards which contain mostly lower income graves. Pre-WW2 the most common stone used tends to be grey sandstone.

Also, depending on the area you're setting the diorama in, you might want to consider the possibility of the stones being set flat rather than upright deliberately.

Post WW2, what @Ratch says above tends to be more or less true though.

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I think this is one of these no right or wrong colour. There is white marble and black marble and all sorts of shades of stone in between, and don't forget weathering with algae/moss etc. Probably as well to vary the stones' colour too so that they aren't uniform since none are.

 

Interesting concept though, would love to see the finished result.

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I was entirely serious about the "best answer" needing to consider the area where the graveyard is, the period when the graveyard was active, and the income range of those interred.

"Working class" stones tend to be mostly sandstone, and mostly grey or red at that, not yellow. As my previous, older stones may be lying flat over the lair (deliberately, not as a result of vandalism). "Upper class" (includes Victorian merchants and industrialists) stones can be serious monuments. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Necropolis for example.

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