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A Monthly Medium for Collectors and Students of Natural History. 
Address of Office: 369, EUSTON ROAD, LONDON, N.W. 
Vol. II. No. 19. JANUARY, 1894. Price 2d. 
THE GLASTONBURY CRANNOG. 
By E. W. Swanton. 
mI the discovery of this Crannog, the name of Mr. 
A.Bulleid will ever be in separably connected as the dis- 
ve . coverer, and also that of Mr. Edward Bath, as the 
munificent donor to the Glastonbury Antiquarian 
Society of the five acres of land which contain the sites of all the 
Crannogs. 
When the Wincanton Field Club visited it in September last, 
the work of excavation was still being carried on under the 
superintendence of Mr. Bulleid, the cost being defrayed by pub¬ 
lic subscription. 
The field contains about sixty low circular mounds, from twenty 
to thirty feet in diameter, and raised from one to two feet above 
the surrounding level ground. The area covered is about five 
acres, and situated nearly in the centre of the moor between 
Glastonburv and Godney. The whole of the low-lying pasture 
land which surrounds Glastonbury, was—at the time of the occu¬ 
pation of this village—for the most part a great swamp, perhaps 
in places thickly wooded. At intervals there were large meres or 
lakes which increased in area during the winter rains. Mere 
Pool (giving the name to the village of Mere), in 1540, was five 
miles in circumference, and no doubt in earlier ages it extended 
as far as the village. 
In the construction of a mound there was first made a platform 
of timber and brushwood placed on the surface of the soft peat *, 
and kept in place by small piles of wood, two or three feet in 
* The peat contains many land and freshwater shells in a sub-fossilised 
condition including Planorbis umbilicatus, Pisidum amnicum Bythiniatentacu 
lata , B. leathii, and Valvata piscinalis. 
