Once a graveyard was full, additional graves would be dug as needed, and bones disturbed would be transferred to an Ossuary. If there were very large numbers, a mass grave might be used, again in a graveyard (though potentially on a new site). I live in the UK, so local specifics may differ, but I would assign 'Bronze Age' tumuli to the burial mound things I think you are referring to.Ĭhristian burials would have been mostly individual internments (though without *any* gravestones in graveyards.
