| They were looking at the first complete cemetery of individual Viking inhumation graves ever excavated in England. |
| The most outstanding was in Barrow 1, a male inhumation accompanied by many artefacts, some of them from remote sources. |
| In late Roman times there was an increased diversity in burial practice and examples of both cremation and inhumation are found. |
| The most significant discoveries came from the upper fills of the mineshaft excavated in 1971 by Roger Mercer, where two inhumation burials were uncovered. |
| The trend from cremation to inhumation in burial practice may also be consciously copying the changing Roman fashion. |
| The Sarmatian burial rite at Klin Yar is inhumation in underground chambers. |
