interments

Noun

interment (countable and uncountable, plural interments)

1. The act of burying a dead body; burial.
   • In a chamber tomb at Milatos, Mr. Evans discovered in 1899 a painted larnax or sarcophagus, on which there is figured a great Mycenæan body shield, although not of the usual figure-of-eight shape. A false neck vase, however, that belongs almost certainly to the same interment is, in shape and...1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 101

   Synonyms:

   burial, deposition obs., inhumation, deep six idiom