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	Word or Phrase:	ENCLOSED CREMATION CEMETERY *
	Definition:	A cemetery of later prehistoric date comprising exclusively cremated human remains, some or all of which may be contained within pottery vessels. The cemetery area is partly or wholly surrounded by an earthwork bank and/or ditch.

	Word or Phrase:	CREMATION CEMETERY *
	Definition:	A cemetery comprising exclusively cremated human remains, some or all of which may be contained within pottery vessels.

	Word or Phrase:	CREMATION BURIAL *
	Definition:	The site of the formal burial of cremated bone, sometimes 'urned' in a vessel or casket of glass, wood or, more commonly, ceramic.

	Word or Phrase:	CREMATION GRAVE *
	Definition:	An intrusive feature cut for the purpose of containing a cremation burial within it.

	Word or Phrase:	CREMATION PIT *
	Definition:	A pit over which a corpse has been cremated on a pyre into which the remains and debris, and sometime grave goods, collapse and are buried. Generally confined to the Roman period.

	Word or Phrase:	CREMATION *
	Definition:	A funeral rite in which the human body is burnt, usually on a pyre, leaving fragmentary charred or completely combusted remains. Often found buried, occasionally in a container associated with grave goods.