Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (191 page)

King of the Catuvellauni of southeast England in the first half of the 1st century
ad
. At his death in about ad 40, he was the most powerful native leader in southern Britain. One of his claims to fame is the minting of coins which appeared in considerable numbers during his reign. His burial place is thought to be the Lexden Tumulus in Colchester. A romanticized version of his life is the subject of Shakespeare's play,
Cymbeline
.

 
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Type of
ROCK ART
motif found widely in the British Isles and elsewhere comprising a central cup-mark or
CUPULE
around which are one or more concentric grooves.

 
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See
CUPULE
.

 
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Small cup-shaped marks deliberately pecked out of a rock surface. Their purpose and symbolism is not known, although there are some suggestions that in Scandinavia at least they are female signs. Also known as pits, dots, and cup-marks in rock-art studies.

 
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The professional care of monuments, objects or other archaeological materials on behalf of a general or specific public or organization.

 
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Roman senate house or council chamber of the governing body of a
civitas peregrina
, or of a community of high status.

 
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A heavy piece of shaped granite used in the Scottish game of curling.

 
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