Holy Trinity Church
Bier
Cowling Holy
Trinity Church, Cowling. Photographed
By: Cowlingweb
| A bier is a flat frame,
traditionally wooden but
sometimes made of other
materials, used to carry
a corpse for burial in a
funeral procession. In
antiquity it was often
simply a wooden board on
which the dead was
placed covered with a
shroud. In modern times,
however, the corpse is
almost never carried on
the bier without being
first placed in a
coffin, though the
coffin is sometimes kept
open. |
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