Collocations withburial
These are words often used in combination withburial.
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ancient burial
The bones are of a young adult and are believed to be part of an ancient burial site.
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burial ceremony
Nowadays, it is usually possible to airlift the remains back to shore, and prepare a burial ceremony on land.
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burial chamber
Unlike its predecessor, however, this second tomb was equipped with a stairway that provided access to the burial chamber from inside the building above.
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burial custom
Xinglongwa also featured an unusual burial custom, as some bodies were buried directly under the houses.
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burial goods
Class is suggested by building size and burial goods.
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burial pit
Let us take the example of the bubonic plague burial pit.
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burial place
The tomb, the burial place, was the site where the dead bodies of men were to be found.
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burial plot
She was asked whether she had booked a burial plot for herself and her husband and told that if she had not she should do so quickly.
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burial rite
But by the 1970s neither the initiation rite nor the burial rite was required.
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burial ritual
These graves are an indication that the burial ritual lost its egalitarian outlook, stressing the significance of particular persons.
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burial service
There would not be many mourners at her funeral and burial service, and people would be glad to see the last of her.
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burial shroud
He or she is then dressed in a clean, perfumed, plain white burial shroud, called kafan.
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burial site
Additionally, a soil sample from near the burial site was taken and analyzed with low level -spectrometry.
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burial society
They started a burial society.
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burial urn
In one round barrow a small burial urn was recovered.
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burial vault
Beneath and south of the church is an elongated rectangular crypt with the dimensions of 2.0 1.0 m., which had served as a burial vault.
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cremation burial
Prior to the construction of the henge two pits were dug and a cremation burial were placed at the site.
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decent burial
What this motion does is to facilitate a decent burial.
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mass burial
There has not been any research into the psychological difficulties likely to be experienced by those involved in mass burials in the event of war.
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proper burial
The view on a proper burial as a matter of the greatest weight, can be traced back to antiquity.
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