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(a). That the village was originally surrounded by the water 
of a shallow mere. 
{h). That five feet of peat accumulated during the occupation, 
(c). That a strong palisading of beams, piles, and brush-wood 
surrounded and protected the village. 
{d). That the ground work of the village near its margin is 
artificial in some places for a depth of five feet. 
A vast assortment of the heterogeneous debris of human 
occupancy has been gathered on and around the site of the village, 
including two complete skulls and other bones of man. One of 
the skulls shows. a deep cut as if made by a sword. Many of the 
industrial relics exhibit the special characteristics of the style of art 
known as “Late Celtic,” the importation of which into Britain 
preceded, by two or three centuries, the occupation of the island 
by the Eomans ; nor does it appear that any of them has been 
influenced by Koman art. This, indeed, is one of the most interest- 
ing features of the Glastonbury find, and hence, should this pre- 
Koman character be maintained throughout, its antiquities cannot 
fail to shed an unexpected light on one of the obscurest peciods of 
British history within pre-historic times. 
I find it impossible to attempt to give an adequate idea of the 
number, technique, and purposes of these relics. Suffice it to say 
that they are made of various materials — stone, flint, bronze, iron, 
bone, horn, glass, pottery, etc. Among the bronze objects are 
fibulae, spiral finger-rings, penannular brooches, and an elegant bowl. 
Of bone or horn we have needles, pins, handles, long-handled combs, 
etc. The pottery is often highly ornamented, and some of the 
devices show unmistakably Late Celtic art. Among the objects 
of wood are a canoe, the frame-work of a loom, a decorated stave of 
a bucket, part of the axle of a wheel, with a couple of spokes in 
their place. On my last visit to Glastonbury I observed a leaden 
weight shaped like a cheese having the middle of the rim bulging 
out a little. It weighs 4 oz. 229 grs. This is the only article 
in the collection of which there may be entertained a suspicion 
that it has had a Boman origin. 
Before concluding this sketch I wish to refer to two recent 
discoveries which came under my notice last autumn in Bosnia, 
and which, in my opinion, fall to be classified as pile-structures. 
