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.
-
Excavated in 1911, the primary burial dates to about 2500 BC and comprised a crouched inhumation in a cist accompanied by a beaker, bone pin, and flint tools.
-
Forty-two extended inhumations, several with wooden coffins, were examined, 14 in the northern and 28 in the southern plot.
-
Among the historic Winnebago, for instance, in-flesh inhumation was associated with the lower phratry, while platform burial was reserved for the upper phratry.
-
The most significant discoveries came from the upper fills of the mineshaft excavated in 1971 by Roger Mercer, where two inhumation burials were uncovered.
-
Within and under the mound were human bones from at least ten inhumations (three in stone cists and a fourth in a rock-cut grave), flints, animal bones, and the parts of two Neolithic pots.
-
The appearance of urnfields marks a major transition in burial rites from the previous predominance of inhumations, often under round barrows, to a predominance of cremations.