Meare Lake Village

Meare Lake Village is an Iron Age settlement on the Somerset Levels at Meare, Somerset, England, occupied between 300 BC and 100 AD. Two villages of 50-60 hut sites each were built on artificial timber foundations within the now-drained Meare Pool. Unlike the nearby permanent Glastonbury Lake Village, Meare appears to have functioned as a seasonal market and meeting place. Discovered in 1895 and first excavated in 1908 by Arthur Bulleid and Harold Gray, the site yielded glass beads suggesting specialized bead production, along with bronze items, iron fragments, and decorated amber beads. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.