tiompan wrote: Chris Collyer wrote: tiompan wrote:
FWIW .All the cists that I have seen have four thin slabs at the same height and usually buried at least a metre . The stones look too bulky , irregular in height , not likley to have had surrounding earth/peat removed and it looks like the furthest away rests on another . Definitely set though .
Here's a perfect example of the kind of cist you're describing (at White Raise)
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/13271.jpg
I'm sure there is a slab within metres of the stones i pictured.
I really need to get back up there and get some better pics, but i'm off on a short camping trip tonight to go see the lords seat barrow and the ones at Mam tor. Maybe i can get up there late next week.
but have a look at this pair, the first is Swine Sty which is at ground level and which uses what looks like a natural boulder for one of it's sides. The second is at Curbar Edge which uses irregular sized stones. I wasn't sure about this one but EH records it as a possible cist and say that it was found to contain cremation remains, pottery sherds, a flint scraper and some kind of bronze knife.
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/43449.jpg
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/69176.jpg
I don't know if megadread's stones are a cist or some other kind of structure of unknown date (I'm no expert either) but they would seem to fit in with what's possible when compared to some other cists.
-Chris
It may be down to the old chestnut of typology ,when do the non -subterranean examples become cairns . Certainly Swine Sty looks the part but to me Curbar Edge is closer to a cairn despite having typical cist deposits , I like chock stone . If it was a cist there is likely to have been a capstone(s) , might be worth looking for a liklely candidate .
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