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Well, before 2000 years ago, and I guess for sometime after 1 AD, Britain was mainly a pagan world, and didn't they usually burn their dead?

Some groups did use cremation but others buried the dead. Dotted about the British countryside are earth structures called barrows, which are basically burial mounds. Haven't we had ossuary as an AWAD at some point (sorry I should have left to meet some people ten minutes ago, but I thought no, I've just got time to finish Miscellany, so I can't look it up) and anyway how long does it take for buried bodies to decompose?

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