Cist
Small stone-built coffin-like box, ossua or dolmen
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This old word is preserved in the Nordic languages as kista in Swedish and kiste in Danish and Norwegian, as well as in Dutch (kist), where it is the word for a funerary coffin. In English the term is related to cistern and to chest.
Regional examples
- England
- Teffont Evias, England
- Estonia
- Jõelähtme (Rebala) stone-cist graves, Harju County
- Guatemala
- Mundo Perdido, Tikal, Petén Department
- Ireland
- Knockmaree Dolmen, Phoenix Park, Dublin
- Israel
- Tel Kabri (Area A), Upper Galilee
- Latvia
- Batariņi
- Scotland
- Balblair cist, Beauly, Inverness
- Dunan Aula, Craignish, Argyll and Bute
- Holm Mains Farm, Inverness
- Nether Mill, Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire
- Sri Lanka
- Ibbankatuwa Megalithic Stones
- Udaranchamadama
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