burial pit
Dug for remains
A burial pit is an excavated hole in the ground used for interring human remains, typically without the formal structure of a coffin or tomb.
The term often appears in archaeological contexts describing ancient sites, or in accounts of mass graves: Investigators discovered a burial pit containing dozens of victims.
Unlike a grave, which suggests individual interment with some ceremony, burial pit tends to imply multiple bodies or hasty, informal disposal.
- graveSerious and worrying
- unmarked graveBurial site without identification
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- six feet underDead and buried
- excavationAct of unearthing
shallow grave · dig site · bones · remains · corpse · dead bodies · human remains · shallow · dirt · soil · mass grave · mass execution · crime scene · cemetery · interment · digging · shovel · trench
- burial sitesgrave, tomb, tombs, crypt, crypts
- pits
- ancient burialstumulus, barrow, cairn, dolmen, passage grave
- Kofuntumulus, clay figures, sarcophagus, coffin
- historical sanitationcesspit, cesspool, chamber pot, latrine, outhouse
- burial moundsbarrow, tumulus, cairn, mound, passage grave