08-04-2007, 08:31 PM
In archaeology classes (taught in Dutch) we always used the german terms 
We also call 'number 4' 'knochenlager' (German) or 'beendernest' (Dutch) so this could be literaly translated to 'bone's nest' or 'nest of bones'. but I don't know if this is how the English call this. With this type of grave there was no ceramic or stone urn indeed but often an organic recipient, like a leather bag or a wooden box was used.
on fields with cremation fields their are also sometimes holes found with nothing but the ashes from the wood and meterials used to build the pyre. These aren't really graves for the death but refuse pits to dump the waste from the pyre, after remains of the cremated person and his clothes (fibulae etc.), and the gifts were collected from the ashes.
Vale,
We also call 'number 4' 'knochenlager' (German) or 'beendernest' (Dutch) so this could be literaly translated to 'bone's nest' or 'nest of bones'. but I don't know if this is how the English call this. With this type of grave there was no ceramic or stone urn indeed but often an organic recipient, like a leather bag or a wooden box was used.
on fields with cremation fields their are also sometimes holes found with nothing but the ashes from the wood and meterials used to build the pyre. These aren't really graves for the death but refuse pits to dump the waste from the pyre, after remains of the cremated person and his clothes (fibulae etc.), and the gifts were collected from the ashes.
Vale,
