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Lake Villages in Somerset. — Report of Committee-(Sir W. 
Boyp Dawkins, Chairman; Mr. WinLoucusy GARDNER, Secretary ; 
Mr. H. Baurour, Mr. A. Bunurip, Mr. F. S. Patmer, Mr. H. J. E. 
PEAKE) appointed to investigate the Lake Villages in the neigh- 
bourhood of Glastonbury in connection with a Committee of the 
Somerset Archeological and Natural History Society. 
Tue Committee for exploring the Lake Villages in Somerset beg to report that 
the excavations were reopened on Monday, August 28, 1922, under the direction 
of Messrs. Bulleid and H. St. George Gray, and were continued for two weeks. 
The Meare Lake Village consists of two distinct groups of mounds, extending 
over portions of six pasture fields and estimated roughly to consist of one 
hundred dwellings. The field in which the excavations were carried on is one 
of four occupied by the western group of mounds, and the ground opened up 
was directly continuous with that explored in 1921. 
The following dwelling mounds were examined :— 
Mound XXI, a large and important dwelling site, partly explored in 1921, 
was completed, and about one-half of Mounds XXIV, XXVI, and XXNXIiY. 
Mound XXI consisted of three, superimposed clay floors supported by a well- 
arranged timber foundation, the lowest layer of which was 7 feet below the 
surface. 
Mound XXVI consisted of five superimposed floors supported by a founda- 
tion of timber and brushwood ; the total thickness of-clay near the centre of the 
dwelling measured 6 feet. The hearths, central posts, and other structural 
features were of much interest and will be described in detail in the final 
description of the village. 
Among the smaller objects of interest discovered the following may be 
mentioned :— 
Bronze.—A few fragments of bronze and one fibula of La Tene III type. 
Tin and Lead.—Flat ring of tin, diam. 35 mm. Piece of lead ore. 
Tron.—Parts of a sickle and of a knife; awl of round section at one end. 
square at the other. 
Crucibles.—Large crucible, highly coloured, and parts of other crucibles. 
Glass.—Three ring-beads of opaque yellow paste, and another bead of pale 
blue glass. 
Kimmeridge Shale.—Parts of five plain armlets, and a bead (diam. 18 mm.). 
Antler.—T wo weaving combs and parts of two others; several pieces of sawn 
red-deer antler and one piece of roe-deer antler. 
Bone.—leven worked and perforated scapule of ox and horse; perforated 
tarsal bones of sheep; and a modelling tool. 
Pottery.—In some quantity, including a large number of parts of pots finely 
ornamented. 
Spindlewhorls.—Three stone spindlewhorls. 
(Juerns.—Parts of a few saddle querns; also some whetstones. 
Flint.—Five scrapers and a knife. 
Human Remains.—Parts of a child’s skull found in the foundation. 
Cereals.—This season we came across, especially in Mounds XXIV and 
XXXIX, Floor I, a quantity of grains of barley and also a few oat grains. 
These cereals are proving of considerable interest and are being examined by 
Prof: R. H. Biffen, of the School of Agriculture, Cambridge. 
