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In archeology, a cist (; also kist ; 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. ultimately from ; cognate to ) or cist grave is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the Dead body. In some ways, it is similar to the deeper shaft tomb. Examples occur across Europe and in the Middle East. A cist may have formerly been associated with other monuments, perhaps under a cairn or a long tumulus. Several cists are sometimes found close together within the same cairn or barrow. Often ornaments have been found within an excavated cist, indicating the wealth or prominence of the interred individual.
This old word is preserved in the Nordic languages as italic= yes in Swedish and italic= yes in Danish and Norwegian, where it is the word for a funerary coffin. likkista ligkiste kiste In English the term is related to cistern cistern and to chest.
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