Portal:Somerset/Did you know/5

From Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives:
 * ... that Mute Swans ring for lunch at the Bishop's Palace (pictured) in Wells, UK?
 * ... that the Crowcombe church spire was damaged by lightning in 1724 and the top has been planted in the churchyard ever since?
 * ... that a bronze bowl from the Iron Age Glastonbury Lake Village was made from the remnants of two separate vessels, before it was deposited in the peat?
 * ... that the earliest scientifically dated cemetery in Britain was found at Aveline's Hole, at Burrington Combe in the limestone of the Mendip Hills?
 * ... that Culbone Church is the smallest English parish church still holding services?