ABSTRACT
Archaeologists are everywhere devoting an increased effort to the location and excavation of settlement sites of all periods. The Iron Age settlement excavated at Glastonbury, Somerset, by Bulleid and Gray at the beginning of this century was selected for this exercise. The stratigraphic analyses provided the essential framework of the expansion of the settlement, and even in themselves already suggested certain structural and locational regularities which could be scrutinized against the evidence of the other analyses. The conjectured 'amorphous agglomeration' of irregular structures emerges on this and other Celtic sites as a figment of our contemporary rectilinear controlling models. Early cordoned and zoned sherds are heavily focused in the centre and southern sectors, whereas countersunk handle jars of the later Durotrigian model trend heavily to the north, significantly overriding the contrary overall potsherd trend. The fabric of Celtic society appears to have derived its strength from kinship interwoven with allegiance.
