How To Use Burial ground In A Sentence
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Of course, "Stonehenge" is not really the monument it was at its building (whether by Merlin or under the influence of Aliens or as a burial ground), much less in its "original" usage -- rather, "Stonehenge" is a kind of shorthand, by which we mean all the things which intervened, the multiplicities of usages and all the "theories" about its origins that exist in the intervening time.
Archive 2008-06-01
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History surrounds us with battlefields, burial grounds, and forts.
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The discovery of the mass grave in October came on the heels of a report by the Army Inspector General last summer that revealed widespread problems at the nation's premier military burial ground: unmarked and mismarked graves, millions of dollars wasted in botched contracts to computerize its paper records, and at least four urns found in a pile of excess dirt.
For first time in decades, Arlington National Cemetery must bury multiple 'unknowns'
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It is said that there is an ancient burial ground on one of the farms - supposedly haunted!
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“Come on, now,” she beckoned and led me to a remote corner of the burial ground, which had once been the sole province of Colonel Grierson’s men and the mysterious, mononymic Lucas.
Confederacy of Silence
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We paddled a dugout canoe across the river to the village burial ground, where the bodies of these tiny victims of the fossil fuel industry lay.
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Modern archaeologists are divided on whether it was a burial ground, an astronomical observatory or a place for healing the sick.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wilson Hall is one of the oldest campuses on Athens, and rumors speculate that it was built on an ancient burial ground.
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The seminar is aimed at burial ground committee members, clergy, burial ground registrars, elected representatives, local authority staff, community groups and historical societies.
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Ministers plan to grab another 3.3million from burial grounds and crematoria next year.
The Sun
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The catacombs were not hideouts during persecution; they were burial grounds and places of worship, and their location was not secret.
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What must it be like for the Tyonek people whose ancestors 'bones still lie in undiscovered burial grounds in this soil - in this "lease area", and whose very lives depend on the subsistence harvest of fish, and game, and berries just like those ancestors have done for thousands of years?
Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"): Chuitna and the Curse of Coal
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Nothing remains of the old Holy Trinity burial ground, which dates back to the 1840s - it was deconsecrated in the 1970s - apart from the old wall and three gravestones.
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The Cemetery of the Year competition is open to all British cemeteries, burial grounds, churchyards or crematoriums.
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We pass a National Trust sign that points us up hill to the Tumuli - a prehistoric burial ground, where an abundance of heather disguises what lies beneath.
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Artifacts unearthed at shrines and burial grounds at Igbo-Ukwemostly ironware and potteryattest to the society's multilayered social organization.
B. Forest West Africa
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Leaden gray clouds hovered over the ancient burial ground.
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It is the fabled book burial ground.
Christianity Today
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At one end of the spectrum is the provision of a children's playground and at the other sourcing a site for a new burial ground.
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It features Roman roads, ancient burial grounds and 17th century folds.
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It blasts up the drifts like white dirt dug from the earth, a frozen burial ground encircling our thin tent, entrapping us.
The Amber Sea
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Modern archaeologists are divided on whether it was a burial ground, an astronomical observatory or a place for healing the sick.
Times, Sunday Times
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On this day, families visit the tombs of their ancestors and clean the burial ground.
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Outside the town are many other sites of interest, including more than 140 military cemeteries and military burial grounds.
Smithsonian Mag
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These burial grounds are sacred to the Native Americans.
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At the western end is the old burial ground for slaves and free blacks.
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Judgements on what is tasteful and what is not in a burial ground are not easy.
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Graves in a disused Highworth burial ground could be moved to make way for a sheltered housing project.
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Modern archaeologists are divided on whether it was a burial ground, an astronomical observatory or a place for healing the sick.
Times, Sunday Times
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The nearby Cilllin, or burial ground, was used up to about 40 years ago as a final resting place for unbaptised babies.
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The burial ground of some of Carlow's leading historical figures is regularly the scene of attacks.
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Human remains regularly have to be disinterred from old burial grounds scheduled for development.
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The site is set to become one of Britain's most significant ancient burial grounds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Regulating the appearance of a public burial ground is among the most difficult and thankless tasks in local government.
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It is also, coincidently, a bit of a burial ground for high-profile managers.
The Sun
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The burial ground of some of the area's leading historical figures is regularly the scene of attacks.
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The finds from these burial grounds point to the existence of a prosperous matriarchal society.
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After all, it's not every day a housing development takes place on a burial ground, albeit unconsecrated.
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Modern archaeologists are divided on whether it was a burial ground, an astronomical observatory or a place for healing the sick.
Times, Sunday Times
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Modern archaeologists are divided on whether it was a burial ground, an astronomical observatory or a place for healing the sick.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only this burnished clayware retained its painting when it was dug up from burial grounds centuries later.
Mexico's extraordinary arts and crafts
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In the centre was a courtyard or open garth kept clear of structures, although sometimes arranged as a garden or burial ground.
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From there they went to the south-east corner of the island to Owenga where there is another church with burial grounds.
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From there they went to the south-east corner of the island to Owenga where there is another church with burial grounds.
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By then the burial ground will have rewritten the book on slavery in New York and given historians something to talk about well into the next century.
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This book on the subject of Dublin's burial grounds and graveyards records in much detail many of the city's forgotten churchyards and cemeteries.
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As quarrying expanded, it slowly encroached upon the Old Burial Ground, established by the Legislature in 1712.
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Painter Betina Fink's new series, Ancestral Park, focuses on a contemporary burial ground near her home.
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The land for the cemetery was originally leased from St Paul's Cathedral, which had used it as a dumping ground for bones being cleared from the charnel house and tiny burial ground around the church.
Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status
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An additional burial ground at Kettlewell Church was consecrated.
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Perhaps surprisingly, Jerry Stackhouse did not make being on a title contending team his priority as he makes the slow treck to NBA's elephant burial grounds for older players.
CelticsBlog
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There was also a folly and a burial ground, so all in all more sinister than friendly, in my opinion.
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According to legend this was the work of one monk after the bones were disinterred and moved from their original burial ground to the new church.
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The site has always been well known as a sacred pagan centre and burial ground.
On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
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Her remains were interred in the family burial ground in Calvary Cemetery.
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It is the intention of the Parish Committee to mark out areas in the new and old burial grounds, which will be available for new plots to be taken.
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Cillini were the last resting places for unbaptised babies for centuries but were also the burial grounds for shipwrecked sailors washed up on the Kerry shoreline.
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Removal to St. Paul's Church for funeral service took place on Sunday with committal afterwards to the Friends Burial Ground, Rosenallis.
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In 1864, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signed an order establishing a military burial ground, which became Arlington National Cemetery.
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Painter Betina Fink's new series, Ancestral Park, focuses on a contemporary burial ground near her home.
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Those include the huge processing canyons for removing plutonium from irradiated fuel, waste burial grounds, liquid waste disposal areas and the deep vadose zone.
The Seattle Times
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That middle ground has been more of a burial ground for such past ventures as tablet PCs running Microsoft Windows software and "palmtop" computers with miniaturized keyboards.
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
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They may see the little cottages and the great houses made famous by those who have passed over their thresholds; they may linger in the old burial ground and trace out the epitaphs under the portico of the golden-belfried church.
The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
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The former provides a remarkable education resource whilst conserving a very important Anglo-Saxon burial ground.
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The area around the building has long been used as a burial ground for unbaptised children, and the small headstones marking these sad graves can be seen.
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With a special burial ground accessible every hour of the day, friends and family from all around the world could practically come together at anytime to pay tribute to the deceased.
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Among its early actions was to petition the authorities for a separate Jewish burial ground.
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If the broad doors opening from the horse fair into the burial ground had been unbarred, Cadfael would have entered the precinct that way, to reach the stables without having to ride round to the gatehouse, but he knew they would be fast closed.
A River So Long
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Swan inn, was a Roman burial ground, and several cinerary urns and some coffins have been discovered there.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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There's a fine distinction between a burial ground and a graveyard, the former needing a few years to grow into the other.
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For centuries it was part of a Roman burial ground, an unclean extremity lying beyond the walls of the City of London.
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The graveyard especially is a good place to examine the strange and beautiful gravestones characteristic of old Basque burial grounds.
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The former provides a remarkable education resource whilst conserving a very important Anglo-Saxon burial ground.
