Thesaurus Term/Concept: CIST

Identifier 70071
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note Generally rectangular structure normally used for burial purposes, and formed from stone slabs set on edge, and covered by one or more horizontal slabs or capstones. Cists may be built on the surface or sunk into the ground.

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Instances/Examples (22)

Context Record
Monument Type MKE2675 Bronze Age cist burial, Higham Marshes (Monument)
Monument Type MKE104368 Bronze Age cist grave and copper alloy pins, Hawkshill (Monument)
Monument Type MKE241 Cist burials - tumuli (possible site of) (Monument)
Monument Type MKE6996 Early-medieval burial, St Martin's Road, Guston, Dover (Monument)
Monument Type MKE17542 Iron Age and early Roman cremation burials (Monument)
Monument Type MKE2464 Neolithic and Bronze Age burials found at Warren Farm, Aylesford (Monument)
Monument Type MKE3613 Neolithic celt; Bronze Age cist burial Bronze spearhead & other burials (Monument)
Monument Type MKE44683 Possible stone-line grave at Hayne Barn Riding Stables, Saltwood (Monument)
Monument Type MKE2259 Prehistoric burials and cremations, Epps Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MKE8007 Roman and early medieval burials, West Cliff, Ramsgate (Monument)
Monument Type MKE2333 Roman burials and associated grave goods, Borstal (Monument)
Monument Type MKE2176 Roman Burials at East Farleigh (Monument)
Monument Type MKE4233 Roman cremation burial in cist (Monument)
Monument Type MKE1682 Roman tile cist inhumation (Monument)
Monument Type MKE2020 Romano-British burial found in a stone quarry at Allington, Maidstone (Monument)
Monument Type MKE3858 Romano-British cist burial (Monument)
Monument Type MKE6208 Romano-British coin hoard - cist burial? (Findspot)
Monument Type MKE2356 Romano-British finds, near Strood cemetery, Strood (Monument)
Monument Type MKE1643 Romano-British tile cist (Monument)
Monument Type MKE2514 Site of a possible barrow, Aylesford (Monument)
Monument Type MKE5271 Three Roman stone cist burials; enclosure mound partially surviving (Monument)
Monument Type MKE3545 Tumulus with possible cist, Sandown, near Teynham (Monument)