Editing Glastonbury Tor (section)

===Pre-Christian===
Some [[Neolithic]] flint tools recovered from the top of the Tor show that the site has been visited, perhaps with a lasting occupation, since [[prehistory]]. The nearby remains of [[Glastonbury Lake Village]] were identified at the site in 1892, which confirmed that there was an [[Iron Age]] settlement in about 300–200&nbsp;BC on what was an easily defended island in the fens.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/23637 |title=Glastonbury Lake Village |access-date=18 November 2007 |work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=South West Heritage Trust }}</ref>{{sfn|Adkins|Adkins|1992|p=70}} There is no evidence of permanent occupation of the Tor, but finds, including Roman pottery, do suggest that it was visited on a regular basis.{{sfn|Rahtz|Watts|2003|p=71}}

[[Excavation (archaeology)|Excavations]] on Glastonbury Tor, undertaken by a team led by [[Philip Rahtz]] between 1964 and 1966,<ref>{{cite web|title=Excavation (1964–1966), Glastonbury Tor|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/44979|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=South West Heritage Trust|access-date=27 October 2013}}</ref> revealed evidence of [[Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Age]] occupation during the 5th to 7th centuries<ref name=nhlesm/>{{sfn|Rahtz|Watts|2003|pp=71–78}} around the later medieval church of St. Michael. Finds included [[posthole]]s, two hearths including a metalworker's [[forge]], two burials oriented north–south (thus unlikely to be Christian), fragments of 6th-century [[History of the Mediterranean region|Mediterranean]] [[amphora]]e (vases for wine or cooking oil),<ref>{{cite web|title=Extracts from the Tor Excavations Booklet|url=http://www.chalicewell.org.uk/index.cfm/glastonbury/HistoricalArchive.Article/article_id/27|publisher=Chalice Well|access-date=26 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518071201/http://www.chalicewell.org.uk/index.cfm/glastonbury/HistoricalArchive.Article/article_id/27|archive-date=18 May 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a worn hollow bronze head which may have topped a [[Anglo-Saxons|Saxon]] staff.{{sfn|Castleden|1999|p=55}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Prehistoric, Roman and Post-Roman occupation, Glastonbury Tor|url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/23603|work=Somerset Historic Environment Record|publisher=South West Heritage Trust|access-date=27 October 2013}}</ref>{{sfn|Walmsley|2013|p=15}}