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 Charcoal
burials are graves where a layer of charcoal is present in the grave
fill.
Often this layer is found under the body, or sometimes both under
and over. Charcoal burials may or may not include coffins. Broadly
speaking, charcoal burials are one of a variety of foreign substance
burials found in early medieval Europe.
Other substances sometimes used to line graves or found in
association with bodies include leaves, lime, and ash. It might also
be profitable to consider charcoal burial as one of a number of ways
of defining the space of the grave.
Graves in this period are sometimes lined with crushed chalk or
mortar.
As the title suggests, this covers later Anglo-Saxon graves in which
the body is placed upon or covered by a layer of charcoal. This is
one of a number of rites in early medieval Britain that deviate from
what we think of as the normal Christian burial rite.
Graves Grave
Digger Charcoal Burial
Dolmen Lich
Sarcophagus
Christianity
Fear Funeral Custom
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