Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (217 page)

A class of chambered tombs dating to the 3rd millennium found in central and northern parts of the British Isles where the stone-built chamber is set within an earthen mound or stone cairn with a D-shaped outline. The chamber opens from the flat face. In the north of Scotland these are also known as heel-shaped cairns.

 
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Egyptian god, one of the
FOUR SONS OF HORUS
. Dog-headed models of his head were often used as stoppers for the
CANOPIC JAR
containing the stomach.

 
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Latin term for ‘leaders’, sometimes used in the Roman army to refer to soldiers with duties beyond their normal rank. In the 4th century
ad
frontier forces were often commanded by
duces
. The
dux Britanniarum
, duke of the Britons, possibly based in York, commanded the frontier troops on Hadrian's Wall in the 4th century
ad
. The name survived into the Middle Ages as an expression of nobility (hence ‘duke’), sometimes superior to that of the more normal
comites
(‘counts’).

 
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See
DECOY POND
.

 
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Small bladelets with semi-abrupt alternating retouching along one or both sides.

 
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Dugdale , William
(1605–83)
[Bi].

British antiquary who is best known for the publication in 1656 of one of the earliest regional histories,
Antiquities of Warwickshire
. Dugdale was also a Royalist and an authority on heraldry; in 1677 he was appointed Garter King of Arms and knighted.
[Bio.: J. Broadway , 1999,
William Dugdale and the significance of county history in early Stuart England
. Stratford: Dugdale Society]

 
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