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The woman was identified by fragments of pelvic bone found in 1996 in a burial site in Southwark.

WOODLAND burial sites operated by the Church of England could emerge across the UK over the next few years, boosting the popularity of ''green'' funerals.

He added: "The first woodland burial site in Britain was set up in Carlisle and we were approached by families looking for the same facility in Scotland.

The scheme caused concern among neighbours, but farmer Alan Willey, who owns a successful green burial site nearby, says their fears are misplaced.

Ken West, Cardiff City Council's director of bereavement services, pioneer of woodland burials and founder of the first green burial site in Carlisle, said that interest is growing.

Hourhope Limited wants to use land at Woodfield Lane, Romsley, for the burial site which would involve the use of simple wooden or cardboard coffins.

In 1878 when two brothers stole a mathematical papyrus from the ancient Egyptian burial site in the Valley of Kings, they led scholars to the earliest known occurrence of the square root of a negative number.

A legal challenge to close the 200,000-capacity pit site in Tow Law, which was re-opened on Sunday, came on the day that Defra disclosed it was considering re-opening another burial site in neighbouring Northumberland.

In 1994 and 1995, Neves and his coworkers excavated Santana do Riacho 1, the largest known prehistoric burial site in the Americas.

The Solid Waste Storage Area 4 (SWSA 4) was used as a burial site for vast amounts of radioactive waste during the 1950s and 1960s.

Hope's coffin was placed in a burial site while a family burial grotto is created near the San Fernando Mission, Ward Grant said.

The 1,020-ton reactor vessel package was filled with low-density concrete, removed from the decommissioned containment building and transported by barge 270 miles up the Columbia River to its final burial site.

Clutching a single white rose, Hen's boyfriend, Yaron Cohen, moaned and wept as her casket was driven to the burial site.

The scope of the project includes cleanup of a factory located in Sumgayt, and the surrounding area, of metal mercury contamination and the transportation to a designated burial site for hazardous waste.

The park on Sunday also dedicated the Caves of Abraham, a unique Jewish cave burial site outside of Israel.