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To the south are a stone circle, a cairn, two standing stones, and a large burial cist.
Excavations revealed a sarsen stone cist containing a cremation burial accompanied by a bronze awl and a jet pendant.
They were located at one end of a stone burial cist, which was covered with a cairn.
The cremation graves at Vronda all have multiple burials within the same cist grave.
Excavated in 1911, the primary burial dates to about 2500 BC and comprised a crouched inhumation in a cist accompanied by a beaker, bone pin, and flint tools.
After earlier survey and excavation, the cist was relocated this summer.
A small cist in the first phase of construction yielded evidence of burnt human bone, confirming its use as a burial site.
In August 2011 an untouched cist, on Whitehorse Hill, near Chagford, was the first to be excavated on the moor for over 100 years.
The second phase of construction consisted of a raising in height of the cairn and contained a large cist considered as Early Bronze Age, however, no human remains were found.
Examples from Classical Literature
In this case the cist lay north and south, but the head was laid at the south end.
In a cist discovered in 1790, under a large cairn in the parish of Kilbride, the skeleton lay with its head to the east.
On levelling a large tumulus a few years since, at Dalpatrick, Lanarkshire, a cist was discovered inclosing an urn.
In each corner of the cist a few flint flakes were carefully piled up into a little heap.
Another of smaller dimensions, in the same collection, was discovered in a cist at Cockenzie, in the same county.
Some similarity of form may be traced between this vessel and the larger of the two discovered in the cist at Banchory.
A third urn was found a few feet from the cist, filled, like the two others, with ashes and half-burnt bones.
The cist lay in a small chamber, the body on its left side, with head to the north.
Nothing was found in them but some sand which had fallen in on opening the cist.
The cairn and tumulus, the cist and cinerary urn, all occur accompanied with contemporary relics.
Within it was found a cist containing two skeletons nearly entire.
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