Crossword-Solution: CISTS 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

CARVING ON THE BUDDHIST TOWER, SARNATH, INDIA 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.

There are several forms and varieties of stone graves or cists found in the mound area, some being of cobble stones, others of slabs; some round, others polygonal; some dome-shaped, others square, and others box shaped, or parallelograms.

The wailing, talks, &c., were in their own jargon; none else could understand, and they seemingly knew but little of its meaning (if there was any meaning in it); it simply seemed to be the promptings of grief, without sufficient intelligence to direct any ceremony; each seemed to act out his own impulse" STONE GRAVES OR CISTS.

Sometimes they were buried in stone cists, or in the hollowed trunk of trees; sometimes without any covering save that of the earth.

CHAPTER XVI MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES AND BRASSES Reverence for the dead--Cists--Stone coffins--Devices--Introduction of effigies--Cross-legged effigies--Wooden effigies--Incised effigies--Brasses--Essentially English--Vast number of brasses-- Palimpsests--Destruction--Costumes and fashions--Ecclesiastics-- Lawyers--Soldiers--Canopies and inscriptions--Punning inscriptions-- Contractions--Emblems--Heraldry.