The horrific TV pictures of huge burning pyres of animal carcases helped make animal welfare a more sensitive issue. |
The only health hazard from the pyres is the smoke itself, he says, which could conceivably cause problems for asthmatics. |
At the urnfield excavated at Kimpton, Hants, two pyres have been identified. |
Jennifer and I were travelling by train and were at Carlisle station when we saw the pyres. |
They were mostly Indian cultural ceremonies, but there were also several Europeans cremated on funeral pyres. |
We were almost fed up seeing all the corpses and pyres along the bank of the river. |