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I have to say Charles, often. Even the depth is not that strange.
Ah, that’s interesting and encouraging. Not round here, I checked. What is the frequency of shroud burial, I wonder? And of burial at 3 feet? Anybody got anything to add?
I’ve done some ringing around nationwide and found very few natural burial grounds who have ever had a shroud burial. Tarn Moor seems to be the busiest. Why so? I asked Wendy Pratt, putting it to her that possibly the forthrightness of Yorkshire folk is a factor. It may be. Wendy also ascribes it to the way she explains options to families (she clearly empowers them),and the fact that she offers to make the shroud herself – quite a selling point. Factors which militate against using a shroud include the perceived high price of the Bellacouche shroud, and also the… Read more »
We love the Bellacouche shroud, and wish we saw more of them at our natural burial grounds. However, at a recent country show we exhibited Atkinson’s wool-covered coffin and a sample Bellacouche shroud and although they received interest from the local agricultural community, they really wanted something grittier, less arts & crafty, more earthy – a simple arrangement of woollen blankets on a pine board or stretcher. Feeling creative and industrious? I’m tempted to offer a simple design…
Ah now that’s interesting, and entirely consonant with my experience of farmers. Yes, they are far less sentimentalising about death; their experience with their stock sees to that. I’d have thought that the arts & craftsy shroud has a market among artsy, craftsy (mostly urban) folk. But farmers do like the idea of an earthy hole in a field where they’ll be grazed over. And they’d like to see some baler twine in the construction of the shroud!
Thank you for this, James. A great insight.