Four animal bones were directly associated with the inhumation. |
The most outstanding was in Barrow 1, a male inhumation accompanied by many artefacts, some of them from remote sources. |
The custom of incineration gains ground in Europe until in the Bronze Age it is the rule and inhumation the exception. |
Excavations in 1870 revealed a primary inhumation burial accompanied by a food vessel, a flint scraper, and a flint knife suggesting a date slightly later than the henges. |
The trend from cremation to inhumation in burial practice may also be consciously copying the changing Roman fashion. |
Instances show that the two rites of inhumation and cremation were practised side by side. |