burying ground
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Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg’s director of archaeology, said rectangular patterns of soil discoloration show the location of the burials in what is almost certainly the church’s old burying ground.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
Archaeologists think Sutton Hoo was also a burying ground for the royal’s relatives, who were laid to rest in about 17 other mounds near the presumed king.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 29, 2021
Investigators eventually removed the remains of 27 people — five men, eight women and 14 children — from 28 graves in what scholars discovered was an old burying ground called the Walton Family Cemetery.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2019
With typical disregard for mere historical fact, Hicks has substituted a hedge for the wall that surrounds the burying ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
Johnny explained that the place had once been an Indian burying ground and how as a boy, he had often come there to hunt arrowheads.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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