Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (271 page)

See
FISSION
.

 
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A small gable.

 
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King of the Vandals and the Alans from ad 428. In ad 429 he led his people from Spain into Africa. He resisted attempts by eastern emperors to overthrow him, and with the fleet he built at Carthage his navy dominated the western Mediterranean. In ad 455 he sacked Rome. Gaiseric died
c.
ad 477.

 
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Roman emperor ad 37–41.

 
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Roman emperor ad 305–11.

 
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General and rather obsolete term applied to those kinds of chambered tombs in northern and western Europe in which there is no marked distinction between the entrance passage and the burial chamber. The latter commonly leads off the access passage or is integral to it. Gallery graves are commonly contained within a broadly rectangular mound, the ends of which may be elaborated to create a forecourt area which presumably served as a focus of ritual. See
ALLÉE COUVERTE
,
SIMPLE PASSAGE GRAVE
,
ENTRANCE GRAVE
,
LONG BARROW
.

 
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Roman emperor ad 253–68.

 
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