: a neolithic or Bronze Age burial chamber typically lined with stone
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The Orkney Islands are rich in prehistoric sites, and it was thought, at first, that the slab could be the capstone of a type of Bronze Age burial known as a cist.—Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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