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A simple form of canoe made from a single tree, the hollow in which is created by burning or chopping out the unwanted wood.

 
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The late Iron Age tribe living in the far southwest of England, Cornwall and Devon, at the time of the Roman conquest. Settlements of the immediate pre-Roman period continue through into the 1st and 2nd centuries
ad
, the whole area pursuing traditional patterns of life that include maintaining contacts with northern France and south Wales to south and north respectively.

 
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See
FÉCAMP RAMPARTS
.

 
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A kind of small fort or fortified dwelling place found in the west of Britain and Ireland, dating to the late 1st millennium
bc
and 1st millennium
ad
. Usually comprising a stone wall around a large house and associated agricultural structures. In early Irish literature duns are high-status dwellings; the term is also applied to promontory forts.

 
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King of Scotland from ad 1034. Son of Bethoc , daughter of Malcolm II, and Coinan . Married a cousin of Siward, earl of Northumbria. Died ad 1040, having reigned five years.

 
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King of Scotland in 1094. Born
c
1060, elder son of Malcolm III and Ingibiorg . Married Octreda of Dunbar. Killed in ad 1094, aged
c
34, having reigned six months.

 
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Roman coin worth one eighth of a
DENARIUS
.