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vicinity led to the discovery of a rock-cut chamber-tomb containing con- 
temporary relics, it was hardly considerable enough to be taken for that 
of Merionés, which tradition placed beside the other. 
The Lake Village at Glastonbury.—Siath Report of the Committee, 
consisting of Dr. R. Munro (Chairman), Professor W. Boyp 
Dawkins (Secretary), Sir Joun Evans, Dr. Arntaur J. Evans, 
Mr. Henry Batrour, Mr. C. H. Reap, and Mr. A. Bute. 
(Drawn up by Mr. ArtHuR BuLuLErD and Mr. H. Sr. Georce 
GRAY.) 
AFTER an interval of five years the excavations at the Lake Village, near 
Glastonbury, were reopened in the spring of this year. Digging began 
on May 17 and was continued until June 10, under the joint super- 
intendence of Mr. Arthur Bulleid and Mr. H.St. George Gray. The site, 
discovered in March 1892, was systematically explored annually for 
seven years, when more than one quarter remained unexamined. With 
the exception of the partial excavation of two dwelling-mounds (Nos. 55 
and 74), undertaken by Mr. Gray during the meeting of the Somerset- 
shire Archeological Society at Glastonbury in 1902,’ no digging has 
been done. 
It has recently been decided by the Local Committee at Glastonbury 
to excavate the remaining part of the village, and it is intended to con- 
tinue the exploration for one month in each year until the work is finished. 
Although the number of dwelling-mounds left for future examination is 
comparatively small,” it will be seen from the accompanying plan of the 
village that the area of ground to be dug is large, and under favourable 
circumstances will take at least two seasons more to excavate. 
It is proposed to publish an illustrated paper on this and every subse- 
quent year’s work in the ‘Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archological 
Society.’ As soon as the examination of the site is complete, arrange- 
ments will be made to publish, as speedily as possible, a full and detailed 
account of the whole excavations, and a ‘ Publication Committee’ of the 
Glastonbury Antiquarian Society has been formed to consider the most 
suitable way of carrying this out. The account to be published will pro- 
bably take the form of a quarto volume, fully illustrated with plans and 
sections, and with drawings and photographs of the objects discovered. 
Although the greater part of the work will be dealt with by the explorers, 
it is proposed to invite specialists to write chapters on sections relating to 
subjects in which they are eminent. 
The ground excavated this year is situated at the north-east part of 
the village. Work began with the examination of Mounds 57 and 58, 
partially explored in 1896. Digging was afterwards continued south- 
wards and included the examination of Mounds 54, 55, 78, and portions 
of 64 and 79, left from a previous year. The area of ground between these 
mounds was also carefully excavated, and the remaining piece of the 
palisading discovered to the east of Mound 54 completes the uncovering of 
the boundary of the village. 
Rain prevented work during two whole days ; consequently, the area 
1 Described and figured by Mr. Gray in the Proc. Som, Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc 
vol. xlviii, pt. 2. : 
2 Twelve complete, and portions of several other, dwelling-mounds. 
