A consistent orientation was documented: the heads pointed generally westward, faces turned toward the north.

This standardized positioning indicates that the community had established mortuary practices — ways of placing the dead that were followed deliberately and consistently across many individual burials over what appears to have been a period of considerable time.

The wooden stakes found in association with some burials appear to have been used to hold the wrapped bodies in the soft peat while they settled.

The stakes were driven through or alongside the fabric-wrapped body into the peat beneath.