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  • The pit containing the cist was markedly deeper than the individual graves.
  • The skull was excavated from cist no.1 and is an example of a bronze age short cist within a cairn.
  • The skull was excavated from cist no.1 and is an example of a bronze age short cist within a cairn.
  • Cist burial found in the rampart.
  • The hollow near the center is probably the site of a robbed burial cist.
  • Each had a stone cist at the center which held a cremation burial.
  • Following this industrial archeology, phase b is a bronze age cairn with a central cist.
  • Cist graves.
  • Some bodies were laid out straight, some crouched; some in stone cists, others in hollows in the rubble.
  • He dug a trench and found a cist that had already been opened and cleaned of contents.
  • Although of various forms most of the burials were long cists covered by low, rectangular, kerbed deposits of stone.
  • Cist cemetery has been reconstructed on a small knoll beside the road to west linton golf course.
  • Presumably, this stone is all that remains of an excavated cist.
  • The second of these burials may have removed an earlier stone-lined cist.
  • Cist slabs to mark them.
  • Cist recently exposed in october storms.
  • Four small stone cists stood round the top of this and each contained small pots, which possibly held food offerings.
  • Cist deposit: an implement of flint was found on the floor of the north end ( nms x. eo 230 ).
  • Cist covered with four sarsen stones.
  • In the process of uncovering the exposed cist, a second cist was found.

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