What is Bier?
[[Image:Bier.JPG|thumb|right|200px|A bier from [[Grendon]] church]] A '''bier''' is a flat frame, traditionally [[wood]]en 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 ([[cloth]] used for [[burial]]). 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. ==Related pages== *[[Catafalque]] {{tech-stub}} [[Category:Death customs]] [[Category:Tools]]