noun
ArchaeologyA type of late Iron Age Celtic fort having stone walls bound by horizontally placed timber frames.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. From classical Latin mūrus Gallicus, lit. ‘Gaulish wall’ (Caesar De Bello Gallico 7. 23) from mūrus wall + Gallicus.
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