Thesaurus Term/Concept: INHUMATION CEMETERY

Identifier 70060
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note An area used for the deposition of human remains where the principal funeral rite is the burial of the corpse complete. Generally indicated by the discovery of articulated human skeletal remains, occasionally with evidence of coffins and/or grave goods.

Broader Terms/Concepts (1)

Related Terms/Concepts (1)

Narrower Terms/Concepts (11)

Instances/Examples (77)

Context Record
Monument Type MDO19067 Albert Road/Cornwall Road, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18581 Alington Avenue Outlying Roman Graves (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19087 Beggar's Knap, Great Western Road, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19085 Bridport Terrace, Bridport Road, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO4944 Bronze Age burials at Barton Field, Tarrant Hinton (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6531 Burials found during the construction of The Verne, Portland (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6413 Burials near Great Barrow, Knowlton, Woodlands (Monument)
Monument Type MDO4299 Burials, Whiteway, Marnhull (Monument)
Monument Type MWX377 Cemetery, Verne Common Road, Fortuneswell, Portland (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19308 Christchurch Priory link building; undated Christian graves (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19006 County Constabulary Barracks, Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19073 County Police Station, Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MWX413 Crouched inhumations, Portland (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18927 Crown Buildings, Bridport Road, Dorchester; Roman cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19027 Depot Barracks, Bridport Road, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6059 Enclosure on Woodcutts Common, Sixpenny Handley (Monument)
Monument Type MDO3927 Enclosure, Hanford (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18752 Fairfield Road, Dorchester; Roman Inhumation 175 (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19888 Graveyard, All Hallow's parish church, Sherborne (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19105 Greenhill House, Fordington Green; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19104 High Street, Fordington, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO22320 Human remains, probable graveyard, grounds of Shaftesbury Museum, Gold Hill, Shaftesbury (Monument)
Monument Type MWX974 Inhumation burials, St James's Close, Poole (Monument)
Monument Type MWX801 Inhumation burials, The Rectory, Kings Road West, Swanage (Monument)
Monument Type MWX472 Inhumation cemetery, Jordan Hill, Preston, Weymouth (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6532 Inhumation cemetery, North Common, Portland (Monument)
Monument Type MDO2357 Inhumation cemetery, Woolworths, 55 Cheap Street, Sherborne (Monument)
Monument Type MWX407 Inhumations and cremations, Combe Fields Quarry, Portland (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19100 Iron Age/Romano-British burials, Railway Cutting, Wareham Road, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type MDO46159 Iron Age/Romano-British inhumation cemetery, Herston, Swanage (Monument)
Monument Type MDO1440 Iron Age/Romano-British settlement at Pins Knoll, Litton Cheney (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19592 Junction of Newland and St Swithin's Road; inhumation cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18017 Late Iron Age cemetery at Flagstones, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18059 Maiden Castle Road 4th century AD Roman cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MWX2926 Manor Farm (Romano-British phase) (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18859 Medieval burials, Orchard Street, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type MWX830 Medieval inhumation cemetery, Farm Cottage, Brownsea Island (Monument)
Monument Type MDO2358 Messrs Sawtells, Yeovil Road, Sherborne; Probable Civil War burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18976 Miller's Close, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19109 Old Vicarage, Fordington; Roman Cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MWX2927 Post-Roman cemetery at Manor Farm, Portesham (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18388 Poundbury Late Iron Age / Early Roman Cemetery, Site C (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18389 Poundbury Late Iron Age / Early Roman Cemetery, Site E-F (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18392 Poundbury Late Roman Cemetery, Site C (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18393 Poundbury Late Roman East Peripheral Burial Group (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18398 Poundbury Late Roman Northern Peripheral Burial Group (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18399 Poundbury Late Roman Outlying Burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18410 Poundbury Main Late Roman Cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18994 Prospect Road, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18551 Roman Boundary Cemetery, Alington Avenue, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type MDO44596 Roman burial in lead coffin, Great Down Quarry, Marnhull (Monument)
Monument Type MDO42347 Roman burial, Corporation Yard, Poundbury Road, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type MDO26796 Roman burials at Bindley, Westrow, Holwell (Monument)
Monument Type MDO43309 Roman burials at Gannetts Quarry, Marnhull (Monument)
Monument Type MDO1249 Roman burials at Withymead, Westrow, Holwell (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19242 Roman burials, Hawthorn Lodge, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19101 Roman burials, Northernhay, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19086 Roman burials, Sydney Terrace, Bridport Road, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47877 Roman cemetery, Bridport Road, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type MDO4198 Roman cemetery, Langton Long Blandford (Monument)
Monument Type MDO47846 Roman inhumation cemetery, Charborough Park, Morden (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6651 Romano British cemetery Spa Road, Radipole (Monument)
Monument Type MWX380 Romano British Cemetery, East Cliff/Breakwater Quarries, Portland (Monument)
Monument Type MDO6654 Romano British inhumation cemetery, Radipole Lane, Southhill, Weymouth (Monument)
Monument Type MDO45453 Romano-British burials, Witchampton (Monument)
Monument Type MDO22178 Sherborne Abbey Close Inhumation Cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19870 Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne; early Christian burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19587 Sherborne Old Castle, Castleton; early Christian cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19698 South of Tinney's Lane, Sherborne; late Iron Age and post-Roman inhumation burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19013 Static Water Tank, Borough Gardens, Dorchester; burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO3876 Sub-Roman Christian cemetery at Langham, Gillingham (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19107 The Pound, Fordington, Dorchester; ?Iron Age burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19108 The Pound, Fordington, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO8001 Ulwell Saxon cemetery, Swanage (Monument)
Monument Type MDO18672 Wareham House, Alington Avenue, Dorchester; Post Roman cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19294 West of Marabout Barracks, Dorchester; Roman burials (Monument)
Monument Type MDO19045 WI Tennis Courts, The Grove, Dorchester; ?Roman burials (Monument)