Preliminary report on the deposits at the limestone quarry at Westbury-sub-Mendip.

A piece of decorated rib bone from the Palaeolithic levels of Gough’s Cave is described. Experiments on the methods possibly used to produce the design and the purpose of the object are discussed. It was not necessarily a simple tally.

At the Glastonbury Lake Village site there are two quite distinct occupations by two groups of people with different ideas on house construction and with differences in their cultures as defined by the objects found. The first people on the site built, mainly in oak, timber framed houses of square or rectangular form. The second people destroyed the earlier houses and made artificial mounds of timber, brushwood and clay and on these set up round huts. The occupation ended with a quiet abandonment of the site: there was no terminal massacre and no destruction by fire.

The geological and early historical background to the area is outlined and the ancient field systems, including one associated with a Roman villa, described. Continued excavation of a prehistoric/Romano-British settlement is briefly recorded, with detailed reports on rock samples, slags, brooches, snails and bones.

Dr. E.K. Tratman (1960) described his rediscovery of teh Lye Hole Roman villa (discovered in 1876 and subsequently forgotten) but failed to re-locate the Havyatt Roman villa, originally discovered in 1817. Fresh documentary evidence has led to a re-examination of the original references to the Havyatt site and its location in August 1969 at ST 48016145, on the slope of a low hill south of the R. Yeo near Havyatt Farm. The confusion that has arisen between this and a second Roman site about a mile away in Lower Langford is resolved.