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Gravestones in Welford Road Cemetery, Leicester. This is a list of cemeteries in England still in existence. Only cemeteries which are notable and can be visited are included. Churchyards and graveyards that belong to churches and are still in existence are not included. Ancient burial grounds are excluded.
The Pocklington Iron Age burial ground is a prehistoric cemetery discovered in 2014 on the outskirts of Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.Excavations carried out on an ongoing basis since then, have uncovered more than 160 skeletons and more than 70 square barrows thought to date to the Middle Iron Age that are attributed to the Arras culture, an ancient British culture of ...
It has been known by several names over the years, many spelling variations on Ancient Burial Ground. It is one of the earliest graveyards in New England and the oldest colonial cemetery in New London County. The hillside lot of 1.5 acres (6,000 m 2) and adjoins the site of New London's first meeting house.
Oakley Down Barrow Cemetery, group of round barrows in Dorset. Pentre Ifan, Neolithic dolmen. The Poind and his Man, burial mound and standing stone in Northumberland. Poor Lot Barrow Cemetery, group of round barrows in Dorset. Seven Barrows, site of bowl barrows, bell barrows, saucer barrows and disc barrows. Spinsters' Rock, Neolithic dolmen.
Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery was a place of burial. It is located on Long Hill in the town of Dover in Kent, South East England. Belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period, it was part of the much wider tradition of burial in Early Anglo-Saxon England. Buckland was an inhumation-only cemetery, with no evidence of cremation. The cemetery was on a ...
The findings, published in a series of articles in Current Archaeology, come from one of the largest ancient DNA projects in Europe involving 460 people who were buried in graves between 200AD and ...
Archaeologists discovered an ancient graveyard with mostly children interred between 800 and 200 BC. With the remains of nearly 40 children, all under age 6, experts don’t know the reason behind ...
Ancient Romans continued using and expanding the graveyard until around 300 A.D. When modern-day archaeologists excavated the site, the graveyard spanned about 54,000 square feet and included ...