Cremation, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is the “disposal of a dead person’s body by burning it to ashes, typically after a funeral ceremony”. It is the “combustion, vaporisation and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments” (Wikipedia).
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Walking with the Dead – An Archaeologist’s View of the Deceased
Graveyard in Holy Trinity Church, Lambley, Nottinghamshire, UK. – Credit to James Wright
To celebrate his up coming talk at the London Fortean Society event ‘The Haunted Landscape: British Folklore, Ghosts and Magic’ this weekend, archaeologist James Wright has kindly written a post for us on what it’s like to work with the dead in a professional capacity.
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An introduction – Cemeteries and graveyards, what are they?
As this is the first post on the site I thought I’d start off with a little introduction to what cemeteries and graveyards actually are.
Dead Good Travel 