Author: Arthur Bulleid; Harold St George Gray; Mrs M Aylwin Cotton
Title: The Meare Lake Village
Description: Taunton, Privately Published, 1948-1966. Cloth. A fascinating report on the excavations and relics from the Iron Age settlement on the Somerset Levels at Meare Lake Village, complete with illustrated and folding plates. Complete in three volumes.A comprehensive report and description of the relics, antiquities, and excavations at the Iron Age settlement on the Somerset Levels at Meare Lake Village. The Meare villages were discovered in 1895 but the excavations did not begin until 1908. Archaeologists uncovered many hearths and the buried ruins of Iron Age homes. The majority of the work was carried out by Arthur Bulleid and Harold Gray, the authors of this work (in addition to Mrs M. Aylwin Cotton). Volume I contains twenty-three plates, collated and complete. Volume II contains thirty plates, collated and complete. Volume III contains twelve plates, collated and complete. All volumes also contain numerous in-text illustrations and figures. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper boards. Externally, very smart, with some light bumping to the extremities. A small amount of loss to the paper to the top left corner of Volume III. Some offsetting to the paper to the head of the front board on Volume III. Some spots to the rear board of Volume II. Internally, all volumes firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: meare lake village somerset archaeology antiquity somerset arthur bulleid Not Stated


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