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27 december 1951 glastonbury british archaeology 24 june 1862 excavation of glastonbury lake village and meare lake village arthur bulleid.jpg arthur bulleid
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arthur bulleid

arthur bulleid -lrb- 1862-1951 -rrb- was a british antiquarian , known for the excavation of glastonbury lake village and meare lake village .
he was born in glastonbury , the sixth son of john bulleid , the mayor and founder of the glastonbury antiquarian society , and his wife christina .
he became a medical student but was interested in local history and archaeology .
in 1900 he was married to anna elanor austin .
they lived at dymboro , midsomer norton and had six children .
in his twenties he heard about the discovery of lake villages in switzerland and suspected that similar iron or bronze age settlements may exist on the somerset levels .
he spent his summers searching for them and in 1892 identified a promising field at godney and began to excavate it .
he gave up his medical studies to concentrate on the site which became known as glastonbury lake village , digging during the summer and describing and cataloging his finds during the winter .
in 1898 he stopped the excavation and completed his medical studies before restarting the dig in 1904 with harold st george gray .
he later went on to excavate , with gray , another similar site the meare lake village .
his work is commemorated in the glastonbury lake village museum at the tribunal , glastonbury .
bulleid died in 1951 and is buried in the cemetery , wells road , glastonbury .
