kistvaen

Noun

Meaning

A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Related terms

cist

Examples

Childe the Hunter View of the setting of Childe's Tomb According to legend, the cross was erected over the kistvaen (burial chamber) of Childe the Hunter, who was Ordulf, son of Ordgar, an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Devon in the 11th century. Source: Internet

Foundation remains of stone slab- or gable-shrines, or the cella memoriae of Mediterranean origin, may sometimes have been misunderstood in an earlier era of scholarship as a kistvaen, and the subject is complicated by this "woolly nomenclature." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

kistmutgar Kistner kistrin Kisumu kiswa kiswah