inhumation

But it is Mr. Blair’s account of several millennia of inhumation and exhumation, rather than several centuries of fiction writing, that raises the most significant questions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

Save for a few first-century remains in one corner, the graveyard seems to be an inhumation cemetery, used during the second half of the second century—rather an early date for such a cemetery.

From Roman Britain in 1914 by F. (Francis) Haverfield

Doubtless the remains found in the vases served at a funeral feast prior to the inhumation.

From A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow

In these mounds cremation appears more frequently than inhumation; and both are accompanied by implements, weapons and ornaments of stone and bone.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

Among the aboriginal Britons the custom of simple inhumation was probably prevalent, but there are not wanting evidences in support of the belief that cremation also was sometimes practised in prehistoric times.

From In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent