cist

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

• burial: The hollow near the center is probably the site of a robbed burial cist.
• stone: Some bodies were laid out straight, some crouched; some in stone cists, others in hollows in the rubble.