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  2. Gravestone - Wikipedia

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    Headstone engravers faced their own "year 2000 problem" when still-living people, as many as 500,000 in the United States alone, pre-purchased headstones with pre-carved death years beginning with 19–. [8] Bas-relief carvings of a religious nature or of a profile of the deceased can be seen on some headstones, especially up to the 19th century.

  3. Columbarium - Wikipedia

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    In Buddhism, ashes may be placed in a columbarium (in Chinese, a naguta ("bone-receiving pagoda"); in Japanese, a nōkotsudō ("bone-receiving hall"), which can be either attached to or a part of a Buddhist temple or cemetery. This practice allows survivors to visit the temple and carry out traditional memorials and ancestor rites.

  4. Cremation - Wikipedia

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    With a burial funeral one will also have to purchase a casket, headstone, grave plot, opening and closing of the grave fee, and mortician fees. Cremation funerals only require planning the transportation of the body to a crematorium, cremation of the body, and a cremation urn. [70] The cost factor tends to make cremation attractive.

  5. List of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries - Wikipedia

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    Anglian cemetery with boat burials. [10] Cleatham Cleatham, North Lincolnshire: 5th to early 7th centuries CE 1508 1984–1989 excavation 1204 cremation urns [11] [12] [13] Collingbourne Ducis Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire: 5th to 7th centuries CE 120 1974 The largest number of burial remains in Anglo-Saxon Wiltshire. Includes a bed burial [14 ...

  6. Burial in Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    Funerary urn from the Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery. In rare cases, such as at Baston, Lincolnshire, [44] and Drayton, Norfolk, [45] lids were made for these urns; the most elaborate known example – from Spong Hill, Norfolk – is decorated with a seated human figure with its head in its hands. [46] Several examples used stones as lids. [47]

  7. Spong Hill - Wikipedia

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    This implies it served a population of around 750 people; much larger than a single contemporary settlement and suggests the cemetery served a number of local communities. [2] There have been a number of finds of cremation urns, the first being reported in 1711. There was a small scale excavation in the 1950s and a further investigation in 1968.

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