ON THE LAKE VILLAGE AT GLASTONBURY. $93 
superimposed hearths of baked clay of smaller dimensions. The substruc- 
ture was not strong, chiefly consisting of brushwood with a few pieces of 
timber, the two together averaging 12 inches in thickness. A mortised 
beam of oak with pile driven through in sitw was found under the clay 
in the S. quarter of the mound; the beam was lying lengthways in a 
N.W. and S.E. direction. 
Amongst the ‘finds’ of interest were the following: H 360 to 362, 
and X 73. 
Mounp 73.—Only a small part of the S.E. quarter of this dwelling- 
mound remained for examination from season 1906. No ‘ finds’ of im- 
portance were discovered except H 359, and no additional points of 
interest were noticed in regard to the substructure. 
Mounp 75.—Dwelling-mound 75 was of large size, situated in the 
N.W. quarter of the village, lying S.E. of Mound 74 and E. of Mound 73. 
It was composed of four floors of yellow clay, with nine superimposed 
hearths. The greatest diameter N. and 8. was 33 feet, and the greatest 
depth of clay near the central picket was 2 feet. 
Floor I., measuring 27 feet N. and 8. by 24 feet EK. and W., was 
partially overlapped by Mound 74 along the N.W. margin ; the hearth 
was a circular area of baked clay about 3 feet in diameter. Floor II. 
measured 29 feet N. and 8. by 32 feet E. and W. ; the hearth was made 
of baked clay and measured 3 feet in diameter. Floor TIT. was of much 
smaller dimensions than those above, and the diameter was not easily 
determinable ; the hearth was made of baked clay, and was of similar size 
to Hearth II. Floor IV. was of small size, and the area of clay was 
largely occupied by a series of six superimposed hearths ; the uppermost, 
Hearth IV., was made of gravel and measured 3 feet 6 inches in diameter; 
Hearth V. was composed of baked clay, of circular outline and convex in 
section, measuring 3 feet 10 inches in diameter ; Hearth VI. was made 
of stone, but was incomplete when found, and consisted of three large 
stone slabs, covering an area of 2 feet 6 inches ; Hearth VIT. was also 
made of stone, and was partly overlapped by Hearth VI. The pavement 
was composed of fourteen small slabs of lias, much cracked by heat, 
covering an area of 4 feet 10 inches in diameter ; under Hearth VII. 
there were two small baked-clay hearths (Nos. VIII. and IX.) measur- 
ing respectively 3 feet 6 inches and 3 feet in diameter N. and 8. ; both 
were of circular outline and slightly convex in section. 
The substructure was not strong ; under the W. half it consisted of 
a layer of brushwood, but under the N.E. and 8.E. quarters there were 
large pieces of timber, chiefly arranged in a N.W. and S.E. direction, 
Under the N.E. quarter of the mound the earth lying on and around 
the superficial layers of brushwood was very black, and contained a 
quantity of incomplete animal bones, some of the fragments being 
calcined, and fragments of pottery. This area appeared to have been 
lived upon before the clay was placed in position. In the black earth 
there were occasional traces of bronze staining, but only small pieces of 
that metal were observed. 
Amongst the objects of interest found in Mound 75 were: A 5, 
B 407 (1906), B 408 to 411, C 30, E57, E 268 (1906), E 269, E 271 to 
274, F 378, H 358, H 363, I 106 (1906), I 107, I 108, K 31, L 49, N 8, 
P 179, P 180, W 72, W 95. 
Mounp 81.—The S. half of this mound was excavated in 1905 and 
completed this year. It consisted of one floor, and at 5 feet 6 inches Ns 
