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inhumation

NOUN
  1. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

How To Use inhumation In A Sentence

  • Another, presumably later, inhumation cemetery lay in and around the southern boundary ditch at its Ryknild Street end.
  • They are inhumations not cremations; multiple not single; in rock-cut chambers or tholoi, not under tumuli.
  • These necropoli, in which inhumation appears to have been almost exclusively used, should be divided into two large groups. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
  • In the west country a few burials of this date in stone-lined cists are known, and around the river Humber a localized tradition of inhumation burials under square barrows developed.
  • Excavations in 1870 revealed a primary inhumation burial accompanied by a food vessel, a flint scraper, and a flint knife suggesting a date slightly later than the henges.
  • Another, presumably later, inhumation cemetery lay in and around the southern boundary ditch at its Ryknild Street end.
  • Here Period V of late Roman date saw the imposition of an inhumation cemetery upon the earlier pattern of ditched enclosures.
  • Another, presumably later, inhumation cemetery lay in and around the southern boundary ditch at its Ryknild Street end.
  • Forty-two extended inhumations, several with wooden coffins, were examined, 14 in the northern and 28 in the southern plot.
  • Nonetheless, three ring ditches, one definitely a barrow, and cremation and inhumation burials - some placed deliberately in the pit alignments - were found amongst the fields.
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