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A cist (pronounced /ˈkɪst/ or /ˈsɪst/) or kist (/ˈkɪst/)[1] [2] is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead (notably during the Bronze Age in the British Isles and occasionally in Native American burials). The sides are usually built of single slabs.
A cist may have been associated with other monuments, perhaps under a cairn or long barrow. It would not be uncommon to find several cists close together within the same cairn or barrow. Occasionally, ornaments have been found within a cist under excavation, which could indicate the wealth of the interred individual.
- ^ Houghton Mifflin (2000). The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, page 339. ISBN 978-0-395-82517-4.
- ^ Merriam-Webster Unabridged (MWU). (Online subscription-based reference service of Merriam-Webster, based on Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002.) Headword cist. Accessed 2007-12-11.