The practice of cremation is very familiar, and yet alien to us today. For roughly half a century it has been the predominant method of disposal of the dead in the Scandinavian countries. An increasingly secular society has embraced its hygienic and space-saving properties and as a result cremation lawn cemeteries and memory groves are now found in both cities and countryside. The process of acceptance of cremation has, since the late nineteenth century (when cremation was first introduced in the modern era into Scandinavia), been made possible by several factors, one of them being architectural references to antiquity. The spatiality of memory groves, citing pre-Christian cultural landscapes, places the modern cremated dead in a setting perfectly logical, in connection with a consoling eternity (Williams 2011a, 2012). However, the predeposition act of cremation itself is now, unlike in prehistoric times, completely hidden from the view of the bereaved. It is not spoken of; it is handled by professionals, in stark contrast to its prehistoric open-air equivalent where sensory experiences of cremations must have been common experiences, witnessed, heard, smelled, by many people (Williams 2004a; Bille and Sørensen 2008; Back Danielsson 2009). This paradoxical fact—the familiarity, and the distance from cremation practices—certainly affects our archaeological understanding of the remains of prehistoric cremations. The images of peaceful churchyards, with individual resting places and monuments all influence our preconceptions of what a grave is, and projects them onto interpretations of past burials. Archaeologists have tackled this problem by analogical reasoning and ethnographical examples, to bring to the surface the experience of cremation which now has become hidden. Key themes in recent studies include the search for prehistoric eschatological and cosmological beliefs, including discussions of the transformative properties of the cremation act (Bille and Sørensen 2008; Goldhahn 2007; Kaliff 1997, 2005a, 2007; Kaliff and Oestigaard 2013; Oestigaard 1999, 2000). What happens after cremation—the deposition of the burnt bones in sites that are archeologically labelled prehistoric burial grounds—is somewhat less frequently discussed (see however Arcini et al. 2007; Arcini and Lönn 2009). The burial ground as an archaeological category still suffers from lack of discussion, and the image of a peaceful resting place for the ancestors still lingers.