No burial or cremation can take place without a certificate signed by a the coroner or an attending physician.
The church service will be followed by a short cremation ceremony.
The suggestion that cremations represent individuals of lesser social status is consequently questionable.
Fortunately, cemetery managers were not generally resistant to cremation.
Cremation was impossible because the money needed for wood for the funeral pyre, 300 to 400 rupees, was lacking.
The two barrows with middle bronze age cremations both have shallow ditches, interrupted by a causeway to the south.
Furthermore, it was clear that the cremation movement needed the full co-operation of the cemetery profession in order to advance its case.
