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Glossary Terms: B

Bailey

Ball-headed pin

Baluster

Balustrade

Banjo enclosure

Banner staff locker

Bar

Barbarous radiate

Barbed and tanged arrowhead

Barbican

Barrage balloon site

Barrow

Barry

Base

Basilica

Battle headquarters

Battlement

Bay

Bay window

Beach scaffolding

Beacon

Beating the bounds

Bee bole

Beehive

Beehive quern

Beer house

Bell barrow

Bell cote

Bellarmine

Belvedere

Bend

Bend sinister

Bendy

Bezant

Bezanty

Bezel

Billet

Billety

Bishop's palace

BKS

Blackware

Blade

Blast wall

Blazon

Bloodhound missile site

Bloom

BM

Bomb store

Bombing decoy

Bordure

Bow brooch

Bowl barrow

Boy Bishop Token

Braced

Bracteate

Brass

Bread oven

Breezeblock

Bressumer

Brewhouse

Brick kiln

Brick tumbling

Brickworks

Briquetage

Broad

Bronze

Bronze Age

Bull

Bunker

Burin

Burin spall

Burnt mound

Buttress

Butts

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