414. REPORT— 1903. 



To facilitate the investigation of tliese and similar points the Com- 

 mittee asks to be reappointed, with a further grant. 



[N.B. — As tlie outcome of discussion of this Report, a reconstituted 

 Committee was appointed at the Southport meeting with enhirged terms 

 of reference — 'To Cooperate with Local Committees in Excavations on 

 Roman Sites in Britain.'] 



The Lalx Villruje at GJastonhiirti. — Fifth Report of the Committee, 

 consistinc/ of Dr. R. Munro (Gtudrman), Professor W. Boyd 

 Dawkins (Secretary), Sir John Evans, Mr. Arthur J. Evans, 

 Mr. Henry Balfour, Mr. C. H. Read, av/l Mr. A. Bulleid. 



The Committee, reappointed at the last meeting of the British Association 

 at Belfast, and specially instructed to ascertain the best method of com- 

 pleting the exploration as quickly as possible, and of publishing the 

 results with the least possible delay, reports as follows : — 



The work which remains to be done in the exploration of the lake 

 village is comparatively small, and consists of the examination of twelve 

 huts with the circumjacent areas, out of a total number of seventy-six 

 huts within the palisades, which define the site of the village from the 

 urrounding marsh. This will be taken in hand in the course of the next 

 year, as the dryness of the season may permit. If it cannot be finished in 

 one, it will be carried on in the next season, and it will be completed. 



Since the last Report of the Committee at the Dover Meeting in 1899, 

 the exploration carried on by Mr. Bulleid has been stopped, owing to his 

 unavoidable absence. One hut, however, has been explored by the 

 Aroha3ological and Natural History Society, under the supervision of their 

 Assistant Secretary, Mr. Cray. This has i)een descnbed and figured by 

 him in the Transactions of the Society for the year 1902, in a paper that 

 is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the lake villasre. 



It is proposed that the future work should be carried out under the 

 supervision of the following gentlemen, wlio will act in agreement with 

 this Committee : Mr. A. Bulleid, as representing the Glastonbury 

 Antiquarian Society, and Mr. St. George Gray, to whom the Somerset 

 Archieological and Natural History Society has offered special permission 

 to assist in the work. In this manner the continuous supervision of the 

 work, so necessary in explorations of this kind, will be adequately pro- 

 vided for. 



With i-egard to publication, the Committee is of opinion that a report 

 of the progress made in each session should be prepared for the British 

 Association by the superintendents of the work, until it is completed. 

 When it is completed the general results of the exploration should be 

 published, with adequate illustration by the superintendents, and edited 

 by a Standing Committee of the Association. The precise form which the 

 publication should take may be left for decision until the exploration has 

 been finished. 



In this manner, and with a grant in aid of the exploration fund by the 

 British Association, the Committee believes that this — the most important 

 archaeological investigation now going on in the British Isles — will be 

 rapidly finished, and that the results of the work which has been going on 

 for ten years, so long expected, will be published with the least possible 



