Show FAMOUS FIELD OF BLOOD said to be spa judas purchased with the silver for which he sold his master just outside the walla of jerusalem in the valley of hinnom Is a bocky plain known as the or field of blood it Is the potter s field purchased with the SO pieces of silver tor which judas sold his master berei for centuries visitors to the holy city dying while on their pilgrimage fount a resting place gray and barren it is a desolate spot eoll tary but for the chance ls aitor and a few withered gray clad monks from a nearby monastery lor a small fee one of these ancient recluses will show you the sights 0 tha place caves and underground pas sages honeycombed with tombs ara cut in the rocky field your gulam lends you down age worn steps cut perhaps in the sixth century into crumbling halls ills torch casts fllch erang uncanny shadows on the damp gray walls the place seems to re sent your intrusion it Is the place 0 sleep the hall of the dead oa one side Is the tomb of some monk who followed the fortunes 0 richard lion heart of england to the holy land dying at the very gates of the city his master had hoped to con quer he must have died penniless too as 00 anny of these zealous zealots did else his bones bad not rested in tho potter s field bear Is a ruined enamel house said to have been built by th crusaders for their dead it Is a tumbling ruin nearly thirty feet long by twenty wide with one side of naked frockt beneath it are tw 0 of the larg est caverns their rock sides pierced with tombs and shallow graves in the roof of the ruin are holes through which the bodies of the dead were low ered the field of blood Is on the northeastern slope of the hilll of evil coun ell where tradition says the villa of calathas Cal aphas stood and where the chief priest and elders plotted the execl alon 0 jeans |