noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a burial site
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A Bronze Age burial site has been discovered.
burial customs (= things done when someone dies and is buried )
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the diversity of burial customs in different parts of the world
parade/hunting/burial etc ground
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These fields served as a hunting ground for the local people.
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The rivers are used as dumping grounds for industrial waste.
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He is buried in sacred ground.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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The bill has proved controversial, especially over the issue of whether deep burial should be considered permanent or not.
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Until the last ten years most authors thought that solution seam and stylolite formation took place during deep burial diagenesis.
proper
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The ancient Israelites set great store by proper burial .
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They hid the grave so that we couldn't give the bodies a proper burial .
■ NOUN
chamber
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The most ancient burial chambers consisted of huge stone slabs forming a chamber with entrances through which further corpses might be introduced.
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What can we learn from twenty prehistoric burial chambers , which we call cists, and which have been uncovered up to now?
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The earliest settlers left behind them a remarkable array of monuments: standing stones, burial chambers , villages and brochs.
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There are numerous historic and archaeological sites to visit including the fascinating ancient burial chambers at Pentre Ifan, 20 miles away.
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The strange standing stones, remnants of a burial chamber , are said to house an invisible living occupant - Wayland.
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The remains of duns, brochs, stone circles, burial chambers and standing stones lie scattered throughout the island.
ground
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Jane Stuart died in Wisbech 12 September 1742 and was buried in the Friends' burial ground there.
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If you go back to the earliest burial grounds , you will find kidney stones and gall stones.
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He began to walk away from the burial ground , his heart surging with excitement.
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Painter Betina Fink's new series, Ancestral Park, focuses on a contemporary burial ground near her home.
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It could be a Roman or Saxon burial ground and they were buried with their treasures.
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The graveyard especially is a good place to examine the strange and beautiful gravestones characteristic of old Basque burial grounds .
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The former provides a remarkable education resource whilst conserving a very important Anglo-Saxon burial ground .
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It is said that there is an ancient burial ground on one of the farms - supposedly haunted!
mound
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He pressed the snow to make a mound , a burial mound.
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The dark humus deposits inside burial mounds were used as fertiliser.
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And maybe the one in the burial mound had been dropped by some one else entirely?
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Just because a road runs past a group of Bronze Age burial mounds does not mean that it is prehistoric.
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He had enjoyed the visit to the burial mound .
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A large urea, 32 X 6.4 m, was uncovered to establish the perimeters of two burial mounds .
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The site, composed of burial mounds lined with clay, was not expected to be ready for at least two weeks.
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The elongated, slightly oval hummock could hardly be called a grave, more a burial mound .
place
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The basilican church was generally built over the burial place of the saint to whom it was dedicated.
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Questioning the tomb assumption for megaliths does not mean that people never thought of them as burial places .
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The burial place was surrounded by the crypt and above it, in the church, was the high altar.
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They are believed to have been family shrines rather than communal burial places .
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The so-called tomb of Osiris was actually the burial place of Djer, a long-forgotten king of the First Dynasty.
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Thursday the Royal Burial Mound and the other burial places and the port and the primeval forest.
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The churchyard around it has probably been a burial place for 1000 years.
plot
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Martin pressed himself back into the burial plot , his fear of it temporarily forgotten in the face of this new terror.
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I cried all the way back to the farm and then all the way to the burial plot in our west hill.
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The story of the purchase of Sarah's burial plot is comedy, and comedy frequently takes delight in debunking heroes.
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Bartering for a burial plot Genesis 22 has, not surprisingly, provided inspiration to many artists.
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It can not cover newspaper announcements, private burial plots or memorials.
service
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If the burial service follows a church service on a separate occasion, a fee will be charged.
site
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The Kazakh government has recognized the problem and has accepted a programme for the construction of appropriate burial sites .
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Celtic legend described Newgrange as the burial site of the ancient kings of Tara.
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Still, I feel certain our days at the burial site are numbered.
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The list of his alleged burial sites is long.
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It was some kind of ancient burial site .
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It is imperative for Abraham that a burial site be purchased, and quickly.
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Often the burial site is destroyed, or there is a differential representation of habitats.
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She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site .
■ VERB
find
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In a cemetery from the Late Cucuteni period in Moldavia excavators found two burials of girls about 9-10 years old.
give
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More than 5,000 fur coats were given a ceremonial burial at a secret grave in Britain by the anti-fur pressure group Lynx.
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He insisted it be given a decent burial and immediately got another cat to replace it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However, the survival of certain types of artefact is as much the result of various factors prior to burial as to post-depositional processes.
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Interor intra-mural burials were not typically observed within the houses of the Indus cities.
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Painter Betina Fink's new series, Ancestral Park, focuses on a contemporary burial ground near her home.
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Still, I feel certain our days at the burial site are numbered.
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The ancient Israelites set great store by proper burial .
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The patina the bronzes had acquired during burial was much admired, and people assumed that they had originally been patinated.
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The price of a more elaborate service and burial looks to be £17,000.
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The tilting of the layers tells us of a period of gentle deformation that followed burial of the sediments.