Meanings of cist in English

Earth had been used to cover the cist and form the mound.

After the burial the cist was covered in with earth.

A complete skeleton in a stone cist is now lying in a glass case in the museum.

Storage cist in Canyon de Chelly

On a low hill, cut off on every side by steep ravines, is a small mound containing a cist grave.

Structures.--Ruinsof palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-gravesand fortifications (Aegean isles, Greek mainland and N.W.

When the situation reversed itself; Gorizia got rid of the Fa cist government & a Communist dictatorship prevailed in Yugosla via.

The same people sometimes bury in scattered graves and in mounds-themounds being composed of a large number of cist graves.

Sometimes, in the subsequent burials, the side slab of a previous burial was used as a portion of the second cist.

Two 4,000-year-old Bronze Age burial bowls have been recovered intact from cist graves on a Donegal farm.

East of the cove there is another cist about 4½ feet in diameter and with its floor on the level of the cove.

This cist mode of burial is by no means uncommon in Tennessee, as it is frequently mentioned by writers on North American archæology.

This cist mode of burial is by no means uncommon in Tennessee, as they are frequently mentioned by writers on North American archaeology.

In some places the graves are scattered and in others collected in mounds, each mound being composed of a large number of cist graves.

The front wall was extended beyond this and brought in again to the cliff on a curve, forming another small cist of irregular shape.

Bees in Cumberland, a cist was discovered containing the skeleton of a man measuring seven feet from the crown of the head to the feet.