- Source: Cist
In archeology, a cist (; also kist ;
from ‹See Tfd›Greek: κίστη, Middle Welsh Kist or Germanic Kiste) or cist grave is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead. In some ways, it is similar to the deeper shaft tomb. Examples occur across Europe and in the Middle East.
A cist may have formerly been associated with other monuments, perhaps under a cairn or a long barrow. Several cists are sometimes found close together within the same cairn or barrow. Often ornaments have been found within an excavated cist, indicating the wealth or prominence of the interred individual.
This old word is preserved in the Nordic languages as kista in Swedish and kiste in Danish and Norwegian, where it is the word for a funerary coffin. In English the term is related to cistern and to chest.
Regional examples
Sri Lanka
Bellanbedipalassa
Pothana
Ibbankatuwa Megalithic Stones
Udaranchamadama
England
Bellever Forest, Dartmoor
Hepburn woods, Northumberland
Estonia
Jõelähtme (Rebala) stone-cist graves, Harju County
Latvia
Batariņi
Guatemala
Mundo Perdido, Tikal, Petén Department
Israel
Tel Kabri (Area A), Upper Galilee
Scotland
Balblair cist, Beauly, Inverness
Dunan Aula, Craignish, Argyll and Bute
Holm Mains Farm, Inverness
Nether Mill, Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire
See also
Kistvaen
Dartmoor kistvaens
Stone box grave
Tarand grave
References
External links
Pretanic World - Chart of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Celtic Stone Structures
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