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Site name Meare Lake Village East

Site number 1253

Burial codes 2003 2004 2009 2022 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2047 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2101 2104 2111 2126 2128 2143 2151 2153 2181 2200 1003 1004 1009 1022 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1047 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1101 1104 1111 1126 1128 1143 1151 1153 1181

8/700bc-100bc A bogside village of 51 mounds, the eastern of two sites c90m apart, occupied from the 2nd Century BC to the 1st/2nd Centuries AD and sporadically afterwards.

The finds of human skeletal material were few. Unprovenanced human skeletal material of a male adult was identified. Human bone was also found in the mound clay of Mound 15b (molar, femur and vertebra fragment, bicuspid tooth), under the mound in black earth in Mound 14 (two teeth), a fragment of lower jaw in Mound 21 on the mound clay, and a tooth in Mound 22 in the mound clay. On the upper surface of a mound (unidentified in Bulleid and Gray 1948) was found the skeleton of a human with a dog by its side, the bones indicating deeper water conditions in the village's later years as fresh water shells were embedded in the centres of the long-bones.

A 'gnawed, cut and perforated' femur was also found, and a skull between hut mounds (Wilson 1981).

RC: from Upper Mound 19 HAR-5002 140 +/- 70, HAR-5000 130 +/- 60, and from Lower Mound 19, charcoal layer HAR-5001 210 +/-60 ad

100bc-AD43 Some overlap with 8/700-100 bc.

Remains/Period Y2 Y1

County Somerset

Region SW

National grid square ST

X coordinate 445

Y coordinate 422

Bibliographic source Bulleid and Gray 1948, Gray and Bulleid 1953, Gray 1966, Avery 1967-68, Coles 1987

Query

Site name	Meare Lake Village East
Site number	1253
Burial codes	2003 2004 2009 2022 2023 2026 2028 2030 2035 2042 2047 2051 2065 2075 2084 2092 2098 2101 2104 2111 2126 2128 2143 2151 2153 2181 2200 1003 1004 1009 1022 1023 1026 1028 1030 1035 1042 1047 1051 1065 1075 1084 1092 1098 1101 1104 1111 1126 1128 1143 1151 1153 1181
8/700bc-100bc	A bogside village of 51 mounds, the eastern of two sites c90m apart, occupied from the 2nd Century BC to the 1st/2nd Centuries AD and sporadically afterwards. The finds of human skeletal material were few. Unprovenanced human skeletal material of a male adult was identified. Human bone was also found in the mound clay of Mound 15b (molar, femur and vertebra fragment, bicuspid tooth), under the mound in black earth in Mound 14 (two teeth), a fragment of lower jaw in Mound 21 on the mound clay, and a tooth in Mound 22 in the mound clay. On the upper surface of a mound (unidentified in Bulleid and Gray 1948) was found the skeleton of a human with a dog by its side, the bones indicating deeper water conditions in the village's later years as fresh water shells were embedded in the centres of the long-bones. A 'gnawed, cut and perforated' femur was also found, and a skull between hut mounds (Wilson 1981). RC: from Upper Mound 19 HAR-5002 140 +/- 70, HAR-5000 130 +/- 60, and from Lower Mound 19, charcoal layer HAR-5001 210 +/-60 ad
100bc-AD43	Some overlap with 8/700-100 bc.
Remains/Period	Y2 Y1
County	Somerset
Region	SW
National grid square	ST
X coordinate	445
Y coordinate	422
Bibliographic source	Bulleid and Gray 1948, Gray and Bulleid 1953, Gray 1966, Avery 1967-68, Coles 1987