It seems unlikely now, as was so long claimed, that Barnabas brought with him the 5x3 foot slab of slate that rests horizontally on a stone base 18 inches above his grave which is located in the old burying ground an easy stone's throw from and within clear view of what was his former home.  The same fine-grained slate, called bluestone, is used for grave markers in Leicestershire.  More recent speculation states it was imported at a later date from Mouseley in Leicestershire.

	Here Lyeth Buried The Body of
	Here slepes my body tombed in its dust Till Christ shall come & raise it with the just My soul’s assended to the throne of God Where with sweet Jesus I make my aboad Then hasten after me my dearest wife To be pertaker of this blessed life And you dear children all follow The lord Hear & obey his publick sacred word And in your houses call upon his name For oft I have advis’d you to the same then God will bless you with your children all And to his blessed place he will you call. Hebrews H & Y 4 He Being Dead Yet Speaketh   Also at his feet lie the remains of his youngest son Jonathan Horton The first Captain of Calvary in the County of Suffolk He died Feb. 23, AD 1707, AE 60