Graves for all
Everyone was buried in the same way. Men, women and children were burnt on the pyre. The bones were laid in urns of clay or wood along with a few burial gifts. Of the wooden urns the resin has been preserved which sealed the joints. The urns were placed in hollows in the ground in a common grave field. A stone or wooden pole was raised by the grave.
But the burial customs have varied. In earlier times only a few were buried in cairns and mounds. Later children's graves are lacking, whereas a number of household animals are burnt alongside the dead. What can these changes be due to?
