| Roman-period burials and other finds are fairly common on the sites of Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows. |
| Excavations revealed single cremated burials in each, perhaps the members of a local, wealthy aristocratic Roman family. |
| The city appointed a sexton to oversee burials and set rates at six dollars for a coffin and hearse and four dollars to dig the grave. |
| The Celtic sources are a few burials, some numismatic evidence, infrequent inscriptions and figurines, and Celtic loan words in Latin. |
| Many of these Han burials were readily identifiable by inscribed stone stelae, tablets recording the name, titles, and dates of the deceased. |
| The skeletal remains were in poor condition, probably as the result of soil acidity and the shallow depth of many of the burials. |
