A stone burial box or stone chest used in ancient Britain and Wales, essentially equivalent to a cist.
From Welsh cist-faen, combining cist (chest) and faen (stone). The Welsh term preserves the Celtic linguistic heritage of burial practices in Iron Age and Bronze Age Britain.
The Welsh word cistvaen literally means 'stone chest,' and archaeology students can read a entire story from how these were oriented, what direction the body faced, and what objects were buried with them—ancient people left messages for us.
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