ON THE LAKE VILLAGE AT GLASTONBURY. 415 



28 feet E. and W. It was situated near the N.W. corner of the village, 

 lying S.W. of Mound 67, E. of Mound 71, and S. of Mound 68. It was 

 composed of four floors, the margins of which were considerably over- 

 lapped by the three adjacent mounds. Floors I,, II., and III. were made 

 of pale yellowish -grey clay ; Floor IV. of yellow clay, in which quantities 

 of hard orange-coloured ochreous nodules and gravel were uniformly 

 mixed. The greatest thickness of clay at the centre of the mound 

 measured 3 feet 6 inches. 



Floor I. was a thin layer of clay with an average thickness of 

 6 inches ; there were distinct traces of a baked-clay hearth extending 

 over a circular area 5 feet in diameter. 



Floor II. was 8 inches thick at its greatest depth, and near the centre 

 there were indications of a baked-clay hearth. 



Floor III. — The clay averaged 6 inches thick ; the hearth was made 

 of baked clay, and measured 2 feet 11 inches E. and W. across the top. 



Floor IV. — The clay of this floor was 1 foot 10 inches thick at its 

 greatest depth. The hearth was a circular area of baked clay, having a 

 well-preserved and finely moulded bevelled edge averaging 2 inches in 

 depth. The average diameter across the top was 3 feet 7^ inches ; the 

 centre was raised 3 inches above the periphery of the edge and from 

 3 to 5 inches above the marginal line of the base. 



The substructure was not strong or well arranged. Lying parallel 

 with the E. margin of Floor IV. a large mortised oak beam with three 

 perforations was unearthed, measuring 8 feet long and 15 inches wide : 

 it did not appear to be in its original position. Along the N.E. margin 

 of the mound a line of hurdle-work was found, lying in a N.N.W. and 

 S.S.E. direction. An alder-tree stump with roots in situ was found in 

 the peat under the N. W. quarter of the mound. 



Amongst the more important objects found in this mound were : 

 D 73, E 250 to E 252, F 374, F 375, F 377, H 336, H 337, L 39, 

 W 181. 



Short Description of the Relics ; all Found in 1906, unless 



otherwise stated. 



Bone Objects. (B.) 



224. Large needle ; found in the peat outside the palisading to the W S W of 

 Mound 76, 1895. 



346. Unfinished needle, length 57 mm. N. edge of Mound 73. 



402. Large needle, probably used in net-making, made from the upper end and 

 greater part of the shaft of the right tibia of a young sheep (?); length 147 mm. 

 It has a smooth, blunted point ; the upper end of the bone is perforated transversely, 

 the circular hole on each side being 4 mm.^in diam. Mound 73. 



403. Half a polished metatarsus of sheep or goat, with circular perforation 

 6 mm. in diam. at the upper end. An incipient hole is seen on one side in the 

 middle of the shaft, close to the point where the bone has been fractured. 

 Mound 73. 



404. The greater part of a polished metatarsus of sheep or goat, with condyles cut 

 off at the distal end ; at the proximal end a circular hole (diam. 9 mm.), and another 

 smaller at the side, close to the end. Mound 76. Perhaps used as a kind of shuttle- 

 spool in weaving. (See similar object figured in ' Proc. Som. Arch. Soc.,' vol. xlviii. 

 pt. 2, p. 113, fig. 20.) 



Six other perforated metatarsals, mostly broken, were also found this year (one 

 from Mound 73, four from Mound 74, and one from Mound 76) ; also one perforated 

 metacarpal, Mound 73. 



