S.

In St Michael's Cemetery in Pensacola there was a thick deposit of
household waste at one end of the cemetery. It was used to build up the
low, marshy land in that area.  Here's a link to the cemetery's website
https://www.stmichaelscemetery.org/.

I don't know what your topography is like, but perhaps its something
similar.

Mary

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> Our cemetery - the San Diego Chapel Complex (located within the boundary
> of the San Diego Presidio) stratigraphy has a lot of household trash and
> building rubble mixed in with the burial levels.  We know new burials were
> put in, in spaces that contained older burials (i.e. older deposits were
> exhumed for new bodies).
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> butchered bone/food waste, busted glass and ceramic, metal, shell, etc.)
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