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It was common practice for the dead to be buried inside the church until the change to the law in the 19<sup>th</sup> 19th century. Therefore, each homestead had a burial place, i.e., a burial site allocated inside the church’s nave. There are still some ancient burial sites under the boarding covering the naves of the church in many locations. Those burials led to practices that were of great importance in the religiosity of the town and which have endured nearly to the present.
Sometime later, when the burials were in cemeteries, the homesteads continued to have the place allocated that had previously been the real burial site and it then became the symbolic burial site. The women of the homestead would be there during the religious services and it was there where the offerings were made.