Ashes and memorials

There is no hurry with ashes. We hold them for as long as you need, free, and many families come back a year later when they know what they want. This page is the list of what people do, with the prices, so the decision can be made slowly and once.

Ashes are returned in a simple container, or in an urn you choose: wood turned in Carmarthen, ceramic, a biodegradable urn for burial or water, a scatter tube for a beach or a mountain. Some families divide them: a small keepsake urn or a piece of jewellery each, which we arrange with the ashes here so nobody has to handle them at home. Scatterings on the Gower, at Pembrey, on the Black Mountain or at sea from Burry Port are all common and we know the rules and the people for each; we can be there, or you can go alone with our advice.

For burial of ashes there is the garden of remembrance at the crematorium, the family grave if there is one, or a new plot in a council cemetery or the natural burial ground at Pentre Ifan. Headstones and memorial inscriptions are through Gareth at the stonemason's in Burry Port, who comes to our rooms by appointment; we take no commission, and we tell you that because some do. Memorial benches, plaques and the book of remembrance at the crematorium we arrange too, at the fees those places charge.

What is included

• Ashes held here free for as long as you need
• Urns, keepsakes and jewellery, filled here
• Scatterings arranged or advised, land and sea
• Burial of ashes in a grave, garden or natural ground
• Headstones through a stonemason at his price, no commission
• Benches, plaques and the book of remembrance

What it costs

A scatter tube £35, urns from £65, keepsakes from £40. Headstones from £1,150 through the stonemason; we take nothing on them. Our charges carry no VAT; third-party fees are passed on at cost. The prices page has the standardised price list, the packages and every extra.