Treasure Search in Italy

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 148, 10 July 1937, Page 11

Treasure Search in Italy

Search for a treasxxre of gold coins and jewels said to have been hidden nearly 15 centuries ago to preserve tllem from falling into the xapacious hands of Ittila, King Jof tlxe Huns, during lxis invasxon of nortlxern Italy, is going on at Leveda di Piave, near Treviso. A Latin document in tlxe parislx archives of Lbveda states that in the year 453 A.D. tlxe dnlxabitaixts of the place trnried tlxeir trea'sures at a spot situated some 500 yards from tlxe clxxxrcli. Lahourers constructixxg a ncw road came upon some ancicnt gold coins, and, contxnuirig tlxeir digging operations, strucg, at a depth of about five or six feet> sonxe msirble steps and

what appeared to be a subterraneam. chamber or vault. As it is hoped tlxat this clxanee discovery may result in the location. of; the spot wliere, according to the old*. document, the treasure was buricd., dijr- /? o gxng is now being continued xjjtider thft supervision of areliaeologists and thalocal autlxorities. Between 650 and- 653 A.D. 'Attila ra* va'ged the north of Italy. and extended lxis invasion to tlxe gatcs of Rome,. afterward returning to his own domin-*-ions in what later bceame known tui. Hxxngarv. Tho clxance discovery ©£' workmcn may, it is "hoped, lead to discovery of the highest historie intexvest,