How many heroes their lives did yield
In an unknown grave in a potter's field?
Yet do not weep
For we shall keep
Their memories blazing as on a shield.

potter's field (POT-uhrs feeld) noun

[i}A burial place for poor or unidentified people.

[The term derives from the name of the area where Judas was buried after he hanged himself. The land was bought with pieces of silver he had received for betraying Christ.] per Anu