ON THE LAKE VILLAGE AT GLASTONBURY. 



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containing chips of wood, stones, bones of animals (including the nearly 

 complete skull of a horse), and quantities of coarse hand-made pottery. 



Floor I. was composed of yellow clay, and measured 13 feet 6 inches 

 E. and W. The hearth was well preserved, and consisted of a raised 

 patch of baked clay measuring 4 feet 3 inches E. and W., on the surface 

 of which a well-arranged central area of lias slabs, 3 feet 3 inches in 

 diameter, was embedded. The hearth was much tilted towards the E., 

 the difference in the level of the E. and W. margins being 6 inches. 



Floors II. and III., which were composed of yellow clay, had no 



UKE VILLAGE NEAR 

 GLASTONBURY. 



A. EXCAVATED 1^06. 



B.. EXCAVATED 1892 toIW. 



C UNEXPLORED. 



- PALISADING. 



• DWELLINGS. 



ARTHUR BULLtlO 



MENS n DEL.I90i. 



hearths ; a layer of peat and timber, 1 foot in maximum thickness, 

 separated Floors III. and IV, in the E. half of the dwelling. 



Floor IV. was composed of grey clay, and at the S.W. margin was 

 continuous with the clay of Floor I. of Mound 83. Towards the N. and 

 E. aspects of the mound the clay extended as far as the palisading. No 

 hearth was discovered on this floor. 



Amongst the objects of importance found in or near this dwelling 

 were : E 248, E 249, H 338, H 339, K 30, M 18 and 19 (1895), P 133 

 (1895), P 173, P 176, Q 13 (1895), X 42 (1895). 



Mound 68. — This dwelling-mound was of small size, situated near the 

 N.W. border of the village, S.E. of Mound 69, E. of Mound 70, and 

 N.W. of Mound 83. It was protected along the N. and N.E. sides by 



