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the burial-places of the inhabitants, which were probably on 

 higher ground beyond the marsh. Of the Bronze Age the remains 

 found in various parts of the country were remains of burial 

 places, and not of habitable areas, as was the case at the lake 

 \illage ; and that was why the discoveries made at the lake 

 village were so very interesting. 



INIr. Alfred Pope asked whether the Swiss lake dwellings 

 were before or after this lake village at Glastonbury. 



INIr. Gray answered that for the most part they covered an 

 earlier period. They were known in the Stone Age and also in 

 the Bronze Age, and again in the Iron Age, but the Bronze Age 

 sites were the most numerous. He had, he thought, said enough 

 to convince the club that mid-Somerset had produced one of the 

 best specimens, if not the \ery best, of Late-Celtic civiUsation in 

 England, if not in the whole world. 



The INIeare Lake Village. 



On Thursday morning the party drove off in brakes to ]\Ieare, 

 where excavations had just been begun on the site of another 

 lake village, much larger than the one at Glastorbur)-. Having 

 alighted from their vehicles the party walked about a hundred 

 yards across the flat meadow land, between two rhines or dykes, 

 and there found two men at work in a trench which had been cut 

 straight through one of the hut-floors or "batches," as the 

 countr}folk call them. 



Mr. St. George Gray said that this lake village at INIeare was 

 not by any means a recent discover)'. It had been known about 

 twelve years ; but for obvious reasons it had been kept quiet. It 

 took ]\Ir. Bulleid many years to discover the village at 

 Glastonbur)\ Having studied the subject he was led to expect a 

 place of the sort on those moorland levels ; and after four years 

 search at odd times he alighted upon the Glastonbury lake 

 village. The work at Glastonbury was begun in 1892. Then 

 Mr. Bulleid, having had some relics of lake village type brought 

 to him by a Meare farmer, extended his search, and found in 



