I also discovered what a kistvaen is by the simple process of falling into one (a burial hole ill-covered by a cracked and unbalanced slab of stone), and we met a herd of immensely shaggy, long-horned highland cattle, looking very much like prehistoric creatures recently risen from some weed-grown swamp. ❋ King, Laurie R. (1998)
This was done about half a century since, but the kistvaen that was found only contained some prehistoric ashes, of far earlier date than Geraint; the gold boat and silver oars were not visible. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Traces of old habitation abound; there are many barrows and one perfect kistvaen. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
In the Lundy kistvaen no skeleton was found, nor anything, indeed, save a small fragment of pottery, though "there was a rank odour in the cavity, very different from that of newly turned earth." ❋ F. J. Widgery (N/A)
Close by are a sacred circle, a kistvaen, a pound and hut-circles, and one cairn, besides the ruins of others that have been destroyed. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
Drizzlecombe, near Sheep's Tor, is rich in a variety of antiquities, for it has three stone rows, a large tumulus, a kistvaen, and a later relic -- a miner's blowing-house. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
Thereupon do thou immediately fold the covering round them, and bury them in a kistvaen, in the strongest place thou hast in thy dominions, and hide them in the earth. ❋ William Patten (1902)
And in their sleep, Lludd folded the covering around them, and in the securest place he had in Snowdon, he hid them in a kistvaen. ❋ William Patten (1902)
Christ, but before history -- the stone circles, the cairns and the cromlechs, the kistvaen and the barrows! ❋ Unknown (1901)
Thereupon do thou immediately fold the covering around them, and bury them in a kistvaen, in the strongest place thou hast in thy dominions, and hide them in the earth. ❋ Owen Morgan Edwards (1889)
The grave-cists made of stone of the American mounds are exactly like the stone chests, or kistvaen for the dead, found in the British mounds. ❋ Ignatius Donnelly (1866)
The great antiquarian treasures garnered up in our sepulchral barrows and olden kistvaen cemeteries, are only to be recovered to antiquarian science by digging, and by digging, too, of the most careful and methodised kind. ❋ James Young Simpson (1840)
Holm of Papa Westray, and in the island of Eday; sometimes on the walls of a chambered tumulus, as at Pickaquoy in Orkney; or on the interior of the lid of a kistvaen, as at Craigie Hall, near Edinburgh, and probably also at Coilsfield and Auchinlary; or on a so-called Druidical stone, as on "Long Meg" at Penrith? ❋ James Young Simpson (1840)
For generations the site, which includes a Bronze Age kistvaen - or burial chamber - has been a highlight for ramblers walking across one of Britain's finest wilderness landscapes. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Within the vicinity of the circle is evidence of a burial cairn, a kistvaen with a retaining circle and a double stone row. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The only objects of interest on the Moor, beyond the tors and the views from their summits, were the antiquities, which in that part were particularly numerous, for without leaving the road between the prison and Merridale there could be seen a cluster of hut circles, a kistvaen, a menhir, and a double line of stone rows, and within a short radius many other relics of prehistoric man, as well as one or two logans or rocking-stones. ❋ Robert Naylor (N/A)
