594 REPORT—1899. 
The Lake Village at Glastonbury.—Fourth Report of the Commuttee, con- 
sisting of Dr. R. Munro (Chairman), Mr. A. BULLE (Secretary), 
Professor W. Boyp Dawkins, General Pitt-Rivers, Sir JOHN 
Evans, and Mr. A. J. Evans. (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 
WE regret that from unavoidable reasons the excavations of the Marsh 
Village near Glastonbury could not be reopened this summer, but the 
investigations will be continued another year, and the examination of the 
site proceeded with until completed. Notwithstanding the discontinuance 
of the excavations this year, an important amount of work has been 
accomplished since our last report was presented at the Bristol Meeting 
last autumn. 
The excavated ground mentioned in the following report was situated 
at the centre and west side of the village, and includes fifteen dwelling 
mounds and the ground around them. The more important dwellings were 
the following :— 
P.P.—A large mound situated near the west border of the village 
‘ composed of four horizontal layers of clay one foot thick. Near the centre 
of the mound there were ten superimposed hearths. The timber founda- 
tion was strongest at the south and south-west sides of the mound, and 
overlying the entire surface of the timber was a layer of rushes one foot. 
thick, compressed to such an extent that it both cut and looked like wood 
when making a section. Amongst the timber and vegetable débris in the 
foundation of this mound were dug up a finely turned wheel-spoke, and 
many fragments of pottery and bones, some very complete and well 
preserved hurdle work, evidently part of a dwelling wall fallen flat ; near 
this there were also a number of pieces of cut wood, the base of a wooden 
tub, a wood mallet, and a wheel cut from the solid fifteen inches in 
diameter. 
Mound E E consisted of three floors of clay, the total thickness of 
which was 2 feet 9 inches ; the dwelling that was contemporary with the 
middie floor was evidently destroyed by fire. This mound was noteworthy 
for the number of baked clay sling pellets, and for a human skull, the 
latter object being discovered amongst the timber under the centre of the 
dwelling. 
Mound C C was in size an unimportant one, but was interesting in 
many ways. It consisted of four layers of clay of irregular outline ; it 
contained as many as ten hearths ; the timber foundation was slight, 
except under the lowest hearth, where it formed a square platform from 
five to six feet wide. In the upper, second, and lowermost floors, basin- 
shaped depressions were found with the sides and base of baked clay ; 
they were evidently circular holes cut in the clay floors, the sides carefully 
smoothed and baked. Two of the depressions were within one foot of 
their respective hearths. On and around this mound were dug up great 
quantities of pottery, some loom weights of baked clay, five bone weaving 
combs, three bone needles, one bronze fibula, and several perforated bones 
and stone spindle whorls. 
The remaining dwellings did not yield anything of special note. The 
numbers of smaller objects found during the latter part of last season are as 
