ON THE LAKE VtLLAGE AT GLASTONDURY. 



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dwellings 



in 



two trenches in the level ground passing K. and S. of the 

 Group A. 



The two latter were made with the intention of finding the boundary 

 palisading, but although the ground was explored for more than 50 feet 

 beyond the outside mounds, no protection- wall of posts was found ; but 

 the ground still produced pottery and other evidences of occupation. 



Test-holes were also dug in two mounds in Group B. 



The examination proved conclusively that both groups of mounds were 

 constructed on similar lines to those at Glastonbury. 



The section dug through the mound in Group A, provisionally called 

 I., was of great interest, apart from the number of 



Dwelling-mound 



objects it produced. The foundation consisted of eight clay floors, one 

 above the other, together measuring 6 feet in depth, with twelve super- 

 imposed hearths. The greatest diameter of the mound was 32 feet 

 N. and S. Below the clay floors was a substructure of brushwood and 

 timber 2 feet in thickness, and under this the reeds and rushes forming 

 the original lake-bed. The hearths were made of baked clay, with the 

 exception of the lowermost, which was paved with a few small stones. 



The actual size of the dwellings erected over the floors was not ascer- 

 tained, but the walls had been constructed of wattle-and-daub, as proved 

 by the fragments of baked clay found bearing impressions of wattle- 

 work and timber, evidently the x-emains of a burnt habitation. 



