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词汇 cist
释义 cist
noun[ C ]
 history specializeduk /sɪst/ us /sɪst//kɪst/
a stone structure or container used in ancient times to bury bodies or bones :
More than twenty prehistoric burial chambers, called cists, have so far been found on the island.
The burial site was a cist grave lined with stone slabs, found beneath one of the earliest buildings.
They discovered a cist of three chambers containing human bones and a few pottery fragments.
Many burial and religious sites remain in the form of barrows, cists, and stone circles.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

General and miscellaneous containers
Ball jar
bin
bindle
biscuit tin
caddy
geocache
gift box
gunnysack
hamper
handbasket
pallet
piggy bank
planter
punnet
receptacle
safe deposit box
workbasket
workbox
wormery
wrap

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Burying, cremating and preserving bodies

Examples of cist


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The site was disturbed by 19th century treasure-seekers, who left a hole in the center indicating the position of a cist or a grave.
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Excavations in 1861 revealed a cist in the centre of the circle.
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Excavations in 1861 uncovered an empty, ruined cist in the centre.
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Two burials were interred in rough cists, two were interred in caves and one in a funerary urn.
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The cist, of approximately a meter by 60 cm, consists of 4 side flagstones and a flagstone of cover.
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We lament not having better information on the samples themselves and their relationships to the cist features.
Next, a stairway was added, and then the circular platform was enlarged and a thick-walled cist was added.
The sealed cist contained burned and unburned fragments of at least two human skeletons and pot sherds.
Raised shrines are small, rectangular buildings on platforms, which often contained a burial cist.
There is trig point at the summit as well as a cairn and cist.
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The area is rich in archeological history from a variety of different periods, including flints, pottery, cists, round houses, and cliff castles.
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The meteorite was said to be retrieved from the cist of one of the rooms.
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The "tholos" is abandoned in favour of small cists, either under the homes or outside.
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Two more cist graves located to the west of the enclosure may also date from this time.
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A crude cist was carved out in front of the lower step of an earlier building phase.
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