Welsh burial customs
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- Cist; Simple dug graves; Disarticulated bone in pits
- Cist graves can be covered witha stone lintel slab
- Most graves originally contained a single extended body. Badgers had disturbed the site to a great extent
- Early Christian cemetaries in West Wales often described as 'undeveloped' with no associated church or chapel and no formal boundary or 'developed' with a church/chapel and an enclosure
- 16 adult men / 16 adult women / 2 adolescents / 12 juveniles / 4 infants / 2 neonates
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