cist Definition
cist (sist; also for 1, kist)
cist Usage Examples
Converse of object
- contain: The pit containing the cist was markedly deeper than the individual graves.
- have: Each had a stone cist at the center which held a cremation burial.
- find: He dug a trench and found a cist that had already been opened and cleaned of contents.
- excavate: Presumably, this stone is all that remains of an excavated cist.
- expose: Ten years later, other walkers in the same area noticed a similar cist recently exposed in October storms.
- cover: The bowl barrow had a cremation in a burial cist covered with four sarsen stones.
Preposition: within
cairn: The skull was excavated from cist no.1 and is an example of a Bronze Age short cist within a cairn.
Adjective modifier
- short: The skull was excavated from cist no.1 and is an example of a Bronze Age short cist within a cairn.
- central: Following this industrial archeology, phase B is a Bronze Age cairn with a central cist.
- long: Although of various forms most of the burials were long cists covered by low, rectangular, kerbed deposits of stone.
- stone-lined: The second of these burials may have removed an earlier stone-lined cist.
- small: Four small stone cists stood round the top of this and each contained small pots, which possibly held food offerings.
- second: In the process of uncovering the exposed cist, a second cist was found.
Modifies a noun
- burial: There are reports of a small cist burial found in the rampart.
- grave: They overlay a distinct buried soil, which formed a horizon between the dug graves and burials in cist graves.
- cemetery: An Early Bronze Age cist cemetery has been reconstructed on a small knoll beside the road to West Linton Golf Course.
- slab: Many of the burials were simple cut graves with no cist slabs to mark them.
- deposit: Short cist deposit: An implement of flint was found on the floor of the North end ( NMS X. EO 230 ).
Noun used with modifier
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