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Digital documents - Archaeology UK glossary Category: Sciences > Archaeology Date & country: 14/10/2007, UK Words: 217

Triforium
A gallery between the-arcade and the clerestory.

Tympanum
The space between the lintel of a doorway and the arch above it. Often sculptured.

Undercroft
Basement of a building.

Unicameral
Single-roomed or -celled.

Vallum
A bank. Used to describe the enclosure bank of an early Christian church or monastery.

Vault
An arched, stone roof.

vexillalion fortress
campaign base for legionaries and auxiliaries

vexillatio
detachment of a legion (normally 1,000 men)

via decumana
road in a fort running from back of principia to back gate

via principalis
road in a fort linking the gates in the long sides and passing in front of the principia

vicus
small civilian settlement, especially one outside a fort

Volute
Spiral scroll.

Voussoir
Wedge-shaped stone used in an arch.

voussoir
wedge-shaped stone forming one of the units of an arch

wall-walk
level platform for the sentry on top of a fortification (see parapet)

Warming house
A communal room in the monastery where a fire was allowed.

wattle-and-daub
wall-construction consisting of wickerwork plastered with mud