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Glastonbury Lake Village

Godney, Somerset

An Iron Age village built on a man-made island in a marsh.

In 1892 medical student Arthur Bulleid found the remains of an Iron Age village built on a platform of timber and clay in the marsh. Up to 200 people may have lived there.

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When
c. 250–50 BC
Where
51.1700, -2.7400
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Finds are at the Glastonbury Lake Village Museum.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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