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The slopes of the tor appear to be quite regularly terraced. Some believe that this formation is the remains of an ancient, perhaps neolithic, sacred labyrinth, while others attribute the terraces to natural ruts formed everywhere on grassy slopes by generations of grazing animals, which are slow to disappear if the grass cover is left undisturbed. The most likely explanation is medievalThe Middle Ages formed the middle period in a schematic division of European history into three 'ages': Classical civilization, the Middle Ages, and Modern Civilization. It is commonly dated from the end of the Western Roman Empire ( 5th century) until th strip farming. Even after the wetlandFlorida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile. In physical geography, a wetland is an environment "at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems. and truly aquatic systems. making them different from each yet highly dependent on both" (Mitscs were drained by the MonkA monk is a male religious ascetic. The word comes from the Greek monachos , commonly translated as a solitary person''. It should be noted, however, that monachos is a word that had to be forged especially to name the then new phenomenon of men living sos of Glastonbury AbbeyGlastonbury Abbey in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, now presents itself as "traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church in the world" situated "in the mystical land of Avalon" by dating the founding of the community of monks at 63 A. the legen, by their vast network of drainage canalCanal du Midi in Toulouse, France Canals are man-made waterways, usually connecting existing lakes, rivers, or oceans. They are used for transportation, often by barges or narrowboats on smaller canals, and by ships on ship canals that connect to the oceas, the risk of flooding on the plain meant that farm land was at a premium, for anything other than grazing cattle.
The tor is managed by The National TrustThe National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty known usually as simply The National Trust and sometimes abbreviated to NT is an organization which works to preserve and protect coastline, countryside and buildings in England, Wales a.
Some neolithic flintchalk cliffs, Cape Arkona, Rugen Flint (or flintstone is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline silica rock with a glassy appearance. Flint is usually dark grey, blue, black, or deep brown in colour. It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in chalks and li tools recovered from the top of the Tor show that the site has been visited and perhaps occupied throughout human prehistory. ExcavationSouthwark, London by the Museum of London Excavation is the best-known and most commonly used technique within the science of archaeology. Individual excavations are normally referred to simply as "digs" by those who participate, this being an over-literas on Glastonbury Tor, undertaken between 1964 and 1966, revealed evidence of Dark Age occupation around the later Medieval church of St. Michael: postholes, two hearths, one of them a metalworker's forge, two burials oriented north-south (thus unlikely to be Christian) and fragments of 6th century Mediterranean amphorae (for wine or oil). A worn hollow bronze head may have topped a Saxon staff. The Celtic name of the tor was "Ynis Witrin", meaning "Isle of Glass". At this time the plain was flooded, the isle becoming a peninsula at low tide.
Remains of a 5th century fort have been found on the tor. This was replaced by the medieval St. Michael's church that remained until 1275. A second church, built in the 1360s, survived until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, when the Tor was the place of execution of the last Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey. The remains of St. Michael's Tower were restored in modern times.
The site of the fair held at the foot of the Tor is embodied in the traditional name of "Fair Field" given to an agricultural enclosure, the enclosures in the local landscape dating from the 18th century.