The guardsman lowered his gaze to the ashes as he began digging in earnest.
In New South Wales the body is often burned and the ashes buried.
The city had struggled through the drabness of poverty and joblessness in an effort to raise itself from the ashes of long-dead industries.
The building had been burnt to the ground, and the guardsman began the process of sifting through the ashes.
Thus various parts of criminals, such as the thigh bone of a hanged man, moss grown on a human skull, &c., were used, and even the celebrated Dr Culpeper in the 17th century recommended " the ashes of the head of a coal black cat as a specific for such as have a skin growing over their sight."
