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after a day which will be remembered as a red letter day in the 
elub’s annals. 
Glastonbury.—On Tuesday, Sept. 13th, a goodly muster of 25 
members of the Field Club started at 9.5 a.m. from the Midland 
Station for Glastonbury, with a view principally to examine the 
lately discovered British village now being excavated by Alderman 
Bulleid and his sons. Arriving at Glastonbury at 10.50, the club 
was met by Mr. Arthur Bulleid and taken first to the Antiquarian 
Museum, where all articles discovered in the pre-historic settle- 
ment are deposited. These consist of much coarse hand-made 
pottery in fragments, annular objects of baked clay, shuttles, 
scrapers, a jet ring and domestic implements of bone and sand- 
stone, but not one weapon of offence or defence. The bones also, 
which are extremely numerous, are principally of farm-yard 
_ animals, horses, pigs, sheep, and deer. The entire absence of 
human bones seem to betoken these ancient inhabitants of the 
peat fens to have cremated their dead, and maybe, some cinerary 
urns will some day be discovered on the distant elevated country, 
bordering the bog level. These aborigines were no cannibals, and 
no implements of metal, flint or wood betokening a warlike nature 
have yet been discovered. They evidently were given to pastoral 
pursuits and hunted the roebuck and deer, and existed on fish and 
cereal crops. The Messrs. Bulleid have lately discovered a canoe 
of oak, 18ft. in length, and hollowed out of a single trunk, in a 
marvellous state of preservation, after being buried under peat 
for more than 2,000 years. This canoe is now in an outbuilding 
in Mr. Bulleid’s private grounds, and was shown to the members 
of the Field Club, but it is doubtful whether it will bear its 
exposure to the atmosphere, after it becomes thoroughly dry, or 
will crumble into dust. The entire absence of coins or Samian 
pottery in the excavations betokens that these ancient people 
existed before the Roman age, and afford an interesting opening 
for Archeological research to dissipate the gloom which hangs at 
present over the whole history of these peaceful aborigines ; we 
