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Meare Lake Village
51.1764° N, -2.7956° E
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Meare Lake Village is the site of an Iron Age settlement on the Somerset Levels at Meare, Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
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Early Modern Period
Industrial Period
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Settlement occupation
300 BC–100 AD
Discovery
1895
Early excavation begins
1908
Somerset Levels Project excavations (west)
1970s
Somerset Levels Project excavations (east)
1980s
GPR survey and coring
1998
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GlassworksWorkshops
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Artificial IslandsPollen CoresSoil Layers
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