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tion made of bone and horn, such as knife handles, spear-heads, a 
couple of bone skates, etc. 
In 1870 a circular island, near the shore of the Lake of Llangorse, 
Wales, was shown by the Rev. Mr Dumbleton to have been con- 
structed after the manner of the stockaded islands or crannogs. In 
the course of the excavations, remains of a log-flooring, charcoal, 
food refuse, etc. were turned up, but among them there was no 
relic of sufficient character to give a clue to the period when the 
island was constructed or inhabited. 
In 1880 the Drainage Commissioners of Holderness found it 
necessary to deepen some of the drains in that low-lying district, and 
when this was being done Mr Thomas Boynton’s attention was 
directed to some prepared wood-work and bones of animals found in 
the stuff thrown out which he regarded as evidence of a lake- 
dwelling. Such remains were observed at five different localities, 
two of which have since been more or less explored, with the result 
that there could be no doubt that they were the sites of human 
habitations, having some structural resemblance to the fascine lake- 
dwellings of Switzerland. Some very curious implements made of 
the articulated ends of the long bones of some large bovine animals, 
a flint scraper, a stone axe, a bronze spear-head, and a portion of 
two jet braclets are the chief relics hitherto recorded. 
These meagre records comprise nearly all the results of lacustrine 
research in England previous to the discovery of the Glastonbury 
lake-village in the spring of 1892. The site of this remarkable 
settlement occupies some three or four acres of a flat-meadow, 
within the boundaries of what is supposed, on good grounds, to 
have been formerly a lake or marsh. Before excavations were begun 
all that the eyB could discern, on the undisturbed surface, were 
sixty or seventy low mounds huddled in the corner of a field. Only 
about one-third of these mounds have, as yet, been systematically 
explored, and, so far, the original surmise that each mound formed 
the site of a hut resting on a substratum of beams and brush-wood 
is entirely confirmed. The operations of last summer were almost 
entirely confined to tracing the village border which has now been 
uncovered to the extent of 550 feet, or about one-third of its total 
circumference. According to Mr Bulleid, the discoverer and in- 
vestigator of the village, the following facts have been established 
