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Egyptian lion-headed goddess, consort of Khnum at Esna.

 
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Archaic Stage hunter-gatherer communities living in the Plateau area of northeastern California in North America in the period
c.
4000–3000 bc. Permanent villages are known, from which groups would venture out on foraging missions to occupy small temporary camps for short periods. The Menlow diet included bison, deer, antelope, mountain sheep, rabbit, and a range of other small mammals. They also processed and consumed nuts, to judge from the presence of pestles and mortars.

 
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A collection of Bronze Age metalwork deposited together, possibly either for ceremonial reasons or to hide it in times of danger, comprising mainly new or recently manufactured objects ready to be traded.

 
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An Anglo-Saxon kingdom covering central England, bordered on the north by
NORTHUMBRIA
and on the south by
WESSEX
. The name is thought to mean ‘border folk’, and indeed it is the most westerly Anglo-Saxon kingdom. Its western edge is defined by
OFFA'S DYKE
. The kingdom was established in the 7th century
ad
with a succession of rulers including Aethelbald, Offa, and Coenwulf leading it to its high point in the 8th and 9th century
ad
.

 
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1
A boundary between two fields which might be marked by merestones or a mere path.
2
A pond.

 
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Merewether , John
(1797–1850)
[Bi].

Dean of Hereford and excavator of numerous prehistoric sites in southern England during the first half of the 19th century. One of the Dean's most ambitious schemes was in 1849 when, with finance from the Royal Archaeological Institute, he drove a tunnel into the south side of Silbury Hill near Avebury. Throughout his work his field technique was characteristic of 19th-century clerical excavators. He is reputed to have opened 35 barrows on the Marlborough Downs between 18 July and the 14 August 1849.
[Bio.:
Dictionary of National Biography
, 13, 275–6]

 
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