cremation burial

collocation in English

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cremation
noun[C or U]
uk
/krɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/us
/krɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/
the act of burning a dead body, or a part of a funeral ceremony in which this ...
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burial
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈber.i.əl/us
/ˈber.i.əl/
the act of putting a dead body into the ground, or the ceremony connected ...
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(Definition ofcremationandburialfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Prior to the construction of the henge two pits were dug and acremationburialwere placed at the site.
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It contained evidence of acremationburial.
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To the northwest, a wooden chamber of 2 x 1 m contained an inhumation, and to the southeast, acremationburialhad been placed in some kind of wooden container.
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Cremation burials consist of a hut-urn with ashes of the deceased placed in a "dolium" (large jar) with some other vessels used for food offerings.
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At the center of the cluster is a small set of male-only cremation burials, some in hut-urns.
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The grave contained; the skeletal remains of 47 individuals, including 14 children as well as evidence of cremation burials.
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Of the 104 graves, 79 were inhumation burials and 25 were cremation burials.
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Outside the walls are cemeteries, most of which contain cremation burials.
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In these months he excavated three disturbed burials or cremation burials of the sixth or early seventh centuries which had been plundered of most of their contents.
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Poorly furnished cremation burials, either inside urns or into shallow pits, are concentrated in the forest-steppe zone; whilst more elaborately equipped inhumations are found in the open steppe.
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Four of the barrows were excavated between 198588 in advance of gravel extraction and were found to contain primary cremation burials, some of which were urned.
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It is still open for cremation burials.
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