cist grave

Two more cist graves located to the west of the enclosure may also date from this time.

An intact Bronze Age cist grave was found within castle site.

Two empty Alamanni cist graves were also found near the village.

The largest cist grave has been excavated in Atteln in 1978.

The site was briefly used as a burial site; some 35 cist graves were found on the site during excavations.

In Teviec there are stone cist graves.

All together, six cist graves, each measuring some 50 x50 cm, with grave goods, were unearthed, dating from the late 2nd or 3rd century.

In 1901, one of these cist graves was unearthed 500 m south of the village on the way to Katzenloch.

(4) & (5) Two further stages of cist grave construction around the focal grave.

Over 70 graves were uncovered, some of them pithos burials, and others cist graves.

Human habitation goes back in the area many thousands of years, and of great local excitement were the discovery of Bronze Age cist graves nearby.

Pit and cist graves remained in use for single burials throughout the Mycenaean period alongside more elaborate family graves (see below).

Newtownstewart also has the plantation castle of the Stewart family, where an intact Bronze Age cist grave was found.

Seven cist graves, two of them in Atteln, have been discovered in the Altenau valley.

Submycenaean pottery occurs primarily in contexts such as inhumations and stone-built cist graves.

Excavation at the site by Dr Phené in 1871 discovered a cist grave on the south side of the hill fort rampart.

(2) The construction of the focal grave, an 11 ft by 8 ft rectangular stone enclosure containing a single cist grave.

It became the site of an organised cemetery from about 1200 BC; numerous cist graves and burial offerings from the period have been discovered by archaeologists.

Items range from clay figurines and sarcophagi, to coins of Macedonian kings, black-figure wares, a painted cist grave and metal pots.

Another notable Iron Age artifact originating in St. Keverne is the elaborately engraved bronze mirror discovered in a cist grave, in 1833.

Groups of pit or cist graves containing elite members of the community were sometimes covered by a tumulus (mound) in the manner established since the Middle Helladic period.

In 1985 a cist grave was discovered on the lands of James Leahy in the townland of Rathcahill West.

The first burials in pits or cist graves began at about 1800-1700 BC to the west of the acropolis, which was at least partially enclosed by the earliest circuit wall.

"The ancient village is surrounded by associated features, including cist graves, rock-cut tombs, a mausoleum, quarries, agricultural terraces and installations, a winepress and an olive press.

Various other showcases display groups of finds from pit graves, cist graves, and rock-cut graves excavated in Veroia's north-east, south-east, and south-west cemeteries.