41. Those inhumations containing a corpse lying on their side may have been laid out such for various reasons. 42. Early Anglo-Saxon burial involved both inhumation and cremation, with burials then being deposited in cemeteries. 43. Among the charges against La Paca is " violation of the laws of inhumation and exhumation ." 44. They were bearers of a new funerary practice, which supplanted the old culture of inhumation instead introducing cremation. 45. Burials have been found at all excavated concentric stone circles : both inhumations and either urned or unurned cremations. 46. Almost all the Neolithic burials at Carrowmore appear to have been cremations with inhumations being only found at Listoghil. 47. Several of the inhumation graves were covered by small barrows and others were marked by the use of coffins. 48. Part of a well-furnished pagan period mixed inhumation and cremation cemetery was excavated at Alwalton near Peterborough. 49. In keeping with many Anglo-Saxon cemeteries, most of the inhumations were broadly aligned east to west. 50. Christians also insisted on inhumation and the catacombs allowed them to practice this in an organized and practical manner.
