Some of the people who were there went up to the coffin quite spontaneously.
This metal has been associated with interment since ancient times and used for coffins and coffin linings.
It is likely that a single parish coffin was used to transport bodies, with the pauper simply dropped out of the end into the grave.
What can be read or reconstructed of the texts on the cross is perfectly in accordance with its identification as a coffin cross.
Then we went out under the roof outside and onto the lawns, and the coffin was still inside the crematorium.
Increased use of lead-lined coffins added to the cost.
Two years earlier he had his tombstone and coffin made, and he kept them in a barn close to his home.
The lost text may have contained the name(s) of one or more people buried, or deposited, in the coffin.
