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EXCAVATIONS were resumed on the site of the Meare Lake Village on August 20 and will continue until September 8, or longer, should funds permit. The investigation is being carried on, as usual, under the auspices of the Somersetshire Arch ¦ological and Natural History Society, Dr. A. Bulleid and Mr. St. George Gray again being the field directors. The season's work will be directed to the exploration of two areas in the middle of the group of dwellings of the eastern half of the village. The first of these is a confused area of hummocks and hollows, of which the significance is not clear from surface indications. Apparently the mounds overlap and have been much mutilated superficially. The area is surrounded by a rough lias-stone wall, slight in height, of some 70 ft. in diameter. In a report on the work of the first week which appears in the Times of August 28, it is stated two clay floors of dwellings have been found under the stones. On the upper floor was one of the most ornate and best preserved weaving-combs of antler as yet found in the lake village remains. The second site under investigation is a dwelling mound of approximately 35 ft. diameter, which apparently has three floors, the uppermost being paved with small lias-stones. At this level, two much-defaced brass Roman coins of the fourth century were found. At lower levels, pre-Roman objects included pottery with ‘late-Celtic’ ornament, bronze finger-rings and a buckle and a brooch of La T ¨ne III type. A clear glass bead with yellow spirals was found below the floors. Among the animal remains were bones of two beavers, traces of which are rarely found in Great Britain.
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Meare Lake Village. Nature 134, 316 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134316c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134316c0