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Kistvaen near the Merrivale Stone Rows - Dartmoor
Kistvaen near the stone rows at Merrivale on Dartmoor
more Infos about the legendary Dartmoor : www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/merri_centre.htm
A kistvaen or cistvaen is a tomb or burial chamber formed from flat stone slabs in a box-like shape. If set completely underground, it may be covered by a tumulus.[1] The word is derived from the Welsh cist (chest) and maen (stone). The term originated in relation to Celtic structures, typically pre-Christian, but in antiquarian scholarship of the 19th and early 20th centuries it was sometimes applied to similar structures outside the Celtic world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kistvaen
Image copyright: Regina_Hoer, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
Kistvaen near the stone rows at Merrivale on Dartmoor
more Infos about the legendary Dartmoor : www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/merri_centre.htm
A kistvaen or cistvaen is a tomb or burial chamber formed from flat stone slabs in a box-like shape. If set completely underground, it may be covered by a tumulus.[1] The word is derived from the Welsh cist (chest) and maen (stone). The term originated in relation to Celtic structures, typically pre-Christian, but in antiquarian scholarship of the 19th and early 20th centuries it was sometimes applied to similar structures outside the Celtic world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kistvaen
Image copyright: Regina_Hoer, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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