Wooden houses and barns were then built on the clay base and occupied by up to 200 people at any time until the village was abandoned around 50 B.C.

Artefacts uncovered include wooden and metal objects, many of which are now on display at The Tribunal in Glastonbury High Street, and in the Museum of Somerset in Taunton.

[4][5] It was built on a morass on an artificial foundation of timber filled with brushwood, bracken, rubble and clay.

Early houses were timber framed square or rectangular and built of oak but later buildings were circular huts.

[14][15][16] Despite the wet surroundings vegetable and small domesticated and wild mammals, including beaver and otter, made up more of the diet than fish.

[20] Bulleid had heard about the lake villages in Switzerland and believed similar sites could be found in his native Somerset.

He then left the site to complete his medical studies and returned in 1904 with Harold St George Gray to continue the excavation until 1907.

[27] Much of the timber was reburied as the best way of preserving it, and a survey in 2005 found this to have been quite successful,[28][29] despite reports warning of the area drying out and the peat coverage being reduced.

[39] The artefacts recovered include fragments of pottery, charcoal, bone and a whetstone (a stone for sharpening blades).

Later, on excavation, spinning whorls and weaving combs were found, suggesting textile production, although this may have been for domestic use rather than industry.

[41] Files and hammer heads were examined by metallography which showed that carbon compositions were found to be generally low.

[19] Representations of the houses were recreated at the nearby Peat Moors Centre, run by Somerset County Council, before its closure in 2009.