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Of course, there's no reference (as far as I am aware) to Hobbit burial sites either (save that Merry and Pippin were, I think, buried alongside King Elessar).
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On Hobbit burial, see "The Scouring of the Shire".
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Nineteen hobbits were killed and some thirty were wounded. The dead ruffians were laden on waggons and hauled off to an old sand-pit nearby and there buried: in the Battle Pit, as it was afterwards called. The fallen hobbits were laid together in a grave on the hill-side, where later a great stone was set up with a garden about it...
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This is said so matter-of-fact that it suggests to me that hobbits routinely buried their dead, and perhaps set up some some sort of a remembrance.