 Also, Trelawny, in his account of the recovery of Shelley's body, records that "the face and hands, and parts of the body not protected by the dress, were fleshless," and by the time that the party returned to the beach for the cremation, the body was even further decomposed.In his graphic account of the cremation, he writes of Byron being unable to face the scene, and withdrawing to the beach.Shelley's ashes were interred in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, near an ancient pyramid in the city walls.