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A small coffin or urn outline before a date, marking a burial.
Also known as: Coffin symbol, Small box before a date
Distinct from the death mark, and for the same reason baptism is distinct from birth: burial registers survive where death records do not, so the burial date is often the only date a genealogist has.
A small coffin or urn outline placed before a date to state that a burial or cremation took place on it, as distinct from the date of death.
Contexts: History
Parish burial registers are among the oldest continuous records in Europe and frequently survive where no record of the death itself does, which is why the two dates are notated separately.
The interval between death and burial was normally short, so a burial date closely bounds a death date — but it bounds it rather than giving it.
A burial date shows the person had died by then.
A small six-sided outline, wider at the shoulders and tapering toward the foot, or a rounded urn shape, set before a date.