kistvaen

[ kist-vahyn ]

noun

1. cist ².

Word History and Origins

Origin of kistvaen¹

1705–15; < Welsh cist faen stone coffin, equivalent to cist coffin ( cist ² ) + faen, lenited form of maen stone; menhir

Example Sentences

Kistvaen, kist′vā-en, n. a burial-chamber made of flat stones, and shaped like a chest.

From Project Gutenberg

The mound exists at Twizell, Yorkshire, and the centre of the circle indicates an ancient tomb, very similar to those found by Taylor in the Dekkan; this contained only one single urn, but many of the Indian ones contained, besides the skeleton of the great man buried therein, skeletons of other individuals who had been slaughtered over his tomb, and buried above the kistvaen containing his bones; in one instance two bodies and three heads were found in the principal grave, and twenty other skeletons above and beside it.

From Project Gutenberg

Of the rude stone monuments the dolmen or cromlech is sepulchral, the dolmen when large having been a tribal or family mausoleum, and the kistvaen, which is far smaller, contained the bones of one individual alone.

From Project Gutenberg

On removing the earth of a barrow, which stood at Beacon-hill, an eminence about 200 yards to the north of the village, in the year 1790, a human skeleton was found in a Prodigious skeleton, 7ft. from the head to the ancle-bone. kind of chest, or kistvaen, formed by two large cobblestones at each end, and the same on each side.

From Project Gutenberg

N.W., is an ancient tomb containing a kistvaen or sepulchral chamber of stone; it is probably British, though tradition makes it the grave of Hubba, a Danish leader.

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