kistvaen

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.

The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

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."

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

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.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

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.

The Cornwall Coast

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.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

Traces of old habitation abound; there are many barrows and one perfect kistvaen.

The Cornwall Coast

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.

The Junior Classics — Volume 4 William Patten 1902

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.

The Junior Classics — Volume 4 William Patten 1902

Christ, but before history -- the stone circles, the cairns and the cromlechs, the kistvaen and the barrows!

Set in Silver 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.

The Mabinogion Vol. 3 (of 3) Owen Morgan Edwards 1889