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hope future discoveries of skulls, weapons and personal ornaments 
will reward the labours of the Messrs. Bulleid. 
The site of the excavations is situated about 14 mile to the 
north of Glastonbury, in the very centre of a peat bog, and close 
to a rhine. In a field slightly raised above the surrounding 
country are seen some 50 or more round mounds which originally 
excited the curiosity of Mr. Arthur Bulleid, and led to the sub- 
sequent discovery of the village. Only a few have been opened, 
but the discoveries made in these few have well rewarded the 
labour and expense. The huts of this- people were extremely 
peculiar. On the very surface of a quaking peat-bog a thick layer 
of brushwood was laid, kept in circular form by long alder poles 
driven into the peat. 
These alder poles still look fresh and sound, although very soft 
when handled, and are sharply cut to a point by some stone axe, 
a specimen of which has not yet been found. Over the brush- ~ 
wood there was laid a foundation of larger timber, tied by piles 
driven through the substratum into the peat. On this was laid a 
mound of clay a foot thick, rising to the centre on which was 
some baked clay to support the hearthstone. The hut roof was 
of wattled osiers, covered with clay, many pieces of which lie 
about the excavations, retaining the shape of the wood and even 
the builders’ fingers. As was natural with such a precarious 
foundation, the whole hut gradually sank into the peat, and to 
restore the original level these inhabitants repeated the former 
foundations, and in one excavated mound no less than three 
hearthstones are seen superimposed on each other. The clay for 
these floors can only have been brought from the distant lias beds 
of Polsham, Meare, or Glastonbury. Quantities of split bones lie 
about the excavations; beans, peas and decayed timber, some of 
the latter exhibiting a most brilliant blue mildew on the surface. 
The excavations are to be continued as subscriptions from the 
various learned Antiquarian societies of the country enable the 
works to be carried on. The situation being in a water-soaked 
