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A pyre and grave goods in British cremation burials; have we missed something?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Jacqueline I. Mckinley
Jacqueline I. Mckinley*
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Abstract

There is more to a cremation than the human bone — turned white and blue-grey by the fire, enough to fill a fair-sized hat — because so much may go on the pyre with the corpse.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 258 , March 1994 , pp. 132 - 134
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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