SEARCH FOR A TOMB

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 172, 7 August 1937, Page 11

SEARCH FOR A TOMB

From Cosenza, in Southcrn Italy, domes news of a search for the burial place of Alaric, the- great Yisigothic King, who died- in 410 A.D. When the hing died, his people deterininod that his grave slioutd be hidden and inviolable. " Having carried his bodv to the banks of the little river Busento, they forced their prisoners to dig a new ehannel for the stream, and in its ' vacant bed they buried their king with a vast treasure of gold, silver, precious garments and weapons. , Then the river was turncd back to its former channel and the captives who liad done tho work were killed so that no Boman should evor know the spot. 2$9\rt after more than 1,500 years^ it t

appears that a French scholar, Mllo. Amelie Cruvolin, has been following the v'.ourse of the river sinee last September, and with the aid of her sciontific inrftruments has found at a certain place indications of a vast quantity oi: pre;3ous metal, scven inetres below the carth surfac«». At a spot not far distant from the river; workmen engaged in constructing tt lime furnaee came upon traces of antique brickwork in the ground that had evidently once been traversed by water. If the indications are correctly ro-' ported, it is possible that the Yisi'gotTiie rfecret will be discovered in the ncar Xuturei