Glastonbury have arrived in Glastonbury and stuck his staff into the ground, when it flowered miraculously into the Glastonbury Thorn. The presence of a landscape zodiac around the town has been suggested but no evidence has been discovered. The Glastonbury Festival, held in the nearby village of Pilton, takes its name from the town. During the 7th millennium BC the sea level rose and flooded the valleys and low-lying ground surrounding Glastonbury so the Mesolithic people occupied seasonal camps on the higher ground, indicated by scatters of flints. The Neolithic people continued to exploit the reedswamps for their natural resources and
Music of Somerset Green Fields area of the Glastonbury Festival. The Bath International Music Festival, also known as the Bath Music Fest, is held each summer in Bath. Inaugurated in 1948, the festival includes many genres such as orchestral, contemporary jazz, folk and electronica. There are also small festivals with a music focus within the county such as the Farmfestival, Frome Festival, Sunrise Celebration, Stogumber Festival, Trowbridge Village Pump Festival and the Two Moors Festival. The Trowbridge Village Pump Festival, originally based in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, sat partly within the Somerset border at Farleigh Hungerford for most of its life and will continue to