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A cist ( or ) or kist is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary
Ossuary

An ossuary is a chest, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeleton remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce....
 used to hold the bodies of the dead. Examples can be found all over the world.






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A cist ( or ) or kist is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary
Ossuary

An ossuary is a chest, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeleton remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce....
 used to hold the bodies of the dead. Examples can be found all over the world. A cist may have been associated with other monuments, perhaps under a cairn
Cairn

A cairn is a manmade pile of stones, often in a conical form. They are usually found in Upland and lowland , on moorland, on mountaintops or near waterways....
 or long barrow
Tumulus

A tumulus is a mound of Soil and Rock s raised over a Grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, H?gelgrab or kurgans, and can be found throughout much of the world....
. It would not be uncommon to find several cists 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.

Regional examples


Scotland
  • Balblair cist, Beauly
    Beauly

    Beauly , is a town of the Scotland Counties of Scotland of Scottish Highlands, on the River Beauly, 10 miles west of Inverness by the Far North Line....
    , Inverness
  • Holm
    Holm, Inverness

    Holm is a small residential area in the south of the city of Inverness, Scotland.The most prominent building in this area is the Holm Mills....
     Mains Farm, Inverness


See also

  • Kistvaen
    Kistvaen

    A kistvaen is a stone coffin, usually pre-Christian, derived from the Welsh Language cist and maen .There are many examples of kistvaens on Dartmoor....


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