Charnel house
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A charnel house is a vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored. They are often built near churches for depositing bones that are unearthed while digging graves. The term can also be us
Contents of a Greek Orthodox charnel house showing disarticulated human skeletal remains
Charnel house of Amidadera temple (Nachikatsuura, Wakayama, Japan)
Charnel House at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
The Chapel of Bones in Évora, Portugal
Mortuary house
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In archaeology and anthropology a mortuary house is any purpose-built structure, often resembling a normal dwelling in many ways, in which a dead body is buried.
Charnel house
…stone, and in future bones could be placed in it or buried under its vaults, and provided with two chaplains to serve this 'most celebrated place'". Mortuary house Ossuary…
Mortuary House of St Muiredach O’Heney.