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2,200 year old Glastonbury Lake Village is excavated

Archaeologists have been digging at the site of a 2,200 year old Iron Age settlement in Somerset. Glastonbury Lake Village is one if Britain's best preserved sites from the era. It was last excavated over a hundred years ago.

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Archaeologists say lake village is well preserved

Building houses on a flood plain is always a contentious issue, especially after what happened on the Somerset Levels last winter, but it's nothing new. Archaeologists have been looking at a site at Glastonbury where they did just that, more than 2000 years ago.

Glastonbury Lake Village was built on a man made island in the wetlands and it's been very well preserved.

Archaeologists Bob Croft and Richard Brunning told us more:

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