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the test-figure? For the purpose of answering this I have compared 
roughly the important group of customs relating to water-worship. 
Now I have stated in my ‘Ethnology in Folklore’ reasons for consider- 
ing water-worship customs to be non-Aryan in origin, to belong, therefore, 
to the pre-Celtic people of these islands ; and it is remarkable that the 
‘ethnological test-figure’ produced from the water customs differs radi- 
cally from that produced by the fire customs. I suggest, therefore, that 
in this interesting fact we have provisionally a proof of the value of 
this method of studying the ethnological basis of folklore. 
The Lake Village at Glastonbury.—Third Report of the Committee, con- 
sisting of Dr. R. Munro (Chairman), Professor W. Boyp Dawkins, 
Sir JoHn Evans, General Pirt-Rivers, Mr. A. J. Evans, and 
Mr. A. BULLEID (Secretary). (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 
Tue fifth season of the Exploration of the Lake or Marsh Village near 
Glastonbury began in May last, and the investigations have already 
yielded results of more than ordinary interest and importance. The 
recent dry weather has been most favourable for deep digging, the ground 
being examined in many places to the depth of nine or ten feet ; a depth 
not admissible in former seasons owing to flooding by rain, or the rapid 
percolation of water from the surrounding peat. Since presenting this 
report at Ipswich the following work has been carried out. The remaining 
500 feet of the palisading bordering the village has been traced, and the 
peat examined immediately contiguous and outside it for the width of 
from 10 to 40 feet. The circumference of the village has now been 
completely explored, and an accurate and detailed plan of it made. 
Besides this eight more dwelling mounds have been examined, together 
with the spaces of ground between and around them. The portions of 
the border palisading remaining over from last year and exposed this 
season were situate at the north and south sides of the settlement, and at 
both places it was found to be stronger and in a better state of pre- 
servation than elsewhere. In many places, but more especially at the 
south part of the border, the horizontal pieces of timber and trunks 
of trees, although much displaced and decayed, still formed a platform 
3 feet thick ; and the vertical palisading posts bordering this frequently 
formed a line three or four abreast. 
Near the north edge of the village some large mortised oak beams 
were found in situ, and fixed by their original piles. Other beams of the 
same kind were discovered among the timber forming the substructure of 
an adjacent dwelling mound, evidently not in their original position. As 
a rule, where the palisading was strongest, the peat outside contained 
a larger amount of débris, and the signs of occupation were dug up 
at a greater depth than elsewhere. 
With regard to the construction of the dwellings, an important 
discovery of wattle work was made early in the season. Among the 
wood and débris underlying the clay of a dwelling mound three hurdles 
were uncovered ; the more complete one measured 6 feet 3 inches high 
by 10 feet 6 inches wide, with an average space between the upright 
posts of 5 inches. In close proximity to the hurdles was a beam of oak, 
having small mortise holes arranged along one side parallel to the edge ; 
the distance between the holes exactly tallied with the spaces between the 
