Similarities between the two cultures are evident: decapitation is the most common form of deviant burial identification in both areas. The mode of decapitation differs from region to region and even burial site to burial site but it is less common to find enough osteological evidence to determine the cause of decapitation. Moving past decapitation, binding hands is a common signifier of a criminal or deviant in both areas as well. This is the biggest way scholars agree that determines most concretely that a burial is criminally deviant. Other inconsistencies happen less and there are only small difference between the Anglo-Saxon and Irish burials. This could however change with new discoveries and the addition of data from newly discovered burials in the future.​ (back to Irish deviant burials)