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A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on top of the coffin, or the passage of heavy ...
Burial vault. A vault is a structure built within the grave to receive the body. It may be used to prevent crushing of the remains, allow for multiple burials such as a family vault, retrieval of remains for transfer to an ossuary, or because it forms a monument. Grave backfill. The soil returned to the grave cut following burial.
A burial vault is a structural stone or brick-lined underground tomb or 'burial chamber' for the interment of a single body or multiple bodies underground. The main difference between entombment in a subterranean vault and a traditional in-ground burial is that the coffin is not placed directly in the earth, but is placed in a burial chamber ...
Bethel Cemetery 5736 N. Pulaski Rd., Chicago: 1895 Jewish [3] Beverly Cemetery 12033 Kedzie Ave., Blue Island: 1920 Bill Funks Cemetery Tinley Park: Potter's Field: Bloom Presbyterian Cemetery (also known as First Presbyterian) Chicago Heights: 1843 Bloomvale Cemetery Chicago Heights: Blue Island Cemetery Blue Island: In Memorial Park Bluff ...
A coffin home (simplified Chinese: 义庄; traditional Chinese: 義莊; pinyin: yìzhuāng; Cantonese Yale: yih-jōng; Japanese: gisō (義荘)) is a temporary coffin depository where the coffins containing the cadavers of recently deceased people are temporarily stored while awaiting transport to the place of burial.
Archaeologists discovered a burial vault at the Church of Saint Philibert in Dijon, France, after following a lost staircase. Inside the coffins were remains, rare coins and rosaries.
New York City workers upgrading underground water mains in Greenwich Village discovered an 8-foot-deep burial vault from the 19th century. A heap of skeletons from more than a dozen people were ...
In the U.S., coffins are usually covered by a grave liner or a burial vault, which prevents the coffin from collapsing under the weight of the earth or floating away during a flood. These containers slow the decomposition process by (partially) physically blocking decomposing bacteria and other organisms from accessing the corpse.