Inhumation graves are sometimes richly furnished.
Throughout the stone age inhumation appears to have been universal, many of the neolithic tombs being chambers of considerable size and constructed with massive blocks of stone.
In the early iron age there is less uniformity, some districts apparently favouring cremation and others inhumation.
On the other hand inhumation below the surface of the ground, without perceptible trace of a barrow, seems to have been the most usual practice during the national migration period, both in England and on the continent.
In this last necropolis cremation seems slightly to precede inhumation in date.