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Show TREASURE TROVE IN LONDON Chance Discovery Has Led Antiquarians Antiquar-ians to Believe They Are on Eve of Rare Find. A chance discovery of a piece of blue enamel, curiously marked, by H. S. Gordon, n London mining engineer, has turned a vacant plot, where garden gar-den truck was grown, Into a treasure trove. Today diggers are busy digging dig-ging and sifting every bit of the earth, believing that it Is on the edge of an old Roman cemetery, used centuries cen-turies ago. Digging Into one part of It the men say they can trace London's history by strata to thousands of years ago. It Is estimated that London's level increased in-creased at the rate of one foot a century. cen-tury. Things appear to have been thrown Into the place, which must have been a queer pit, as though It had been a place for refuses. Its rare treasures are mostly broken bits of jewelry, china, glassware, etc. One exquisitely ex-quisitely carved ornament of pure gold, evidently part of a golden collar, col-lar, was found, and Is estimated to have been made between 400 and 500 B. C. Some of the most Interesting objects ob-jects are broken pipes, a whole series ascending through nearly four feet of soil, Illustrating the pipe's evolution from the days of Queen Elizabeth. |
