EXETER DISCOVER.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1923, Page 4

EXETER DISCOVER.

EXETER (England) Sept. 21. J -I bilge grave near Exotcr in which it ■ i:s expected to find tin* remains of people i w ho inhabited Devon 3.0P0 years ago. is •' shortly to lie oxc avuted. j 111!* grave or :.:i; row. i,. ,iiu:!l-.d -m j tin- boundaries of t.hrc*,* i.oii-'.i - j hroake 'i liorvcmoi. and t'j.t.m |Vtv a j lew- mill's from the cily. Ihe Rev. J. ]■'. Chanter, a prcbm- I 'boy ol l-.xet.'r Ca i in: (I ia I ami an ar- j cliaelogic..| authority, will conduct the ! excavation on In half of ih,. Lve-ii i \ i liiict t ural ami A cliaeological Voih-fv. ! ‘Timr- is no d.aht." he s a i,l. 1 “that the h inow is what might lie called a ‘Mound of Death.' .and tiie:n is every reason to believe that it contains Neolithic icniaiim. “I am liojiclui of finding urns containing the ashes of Neolithic men and women. Tn Neolithic film - people were almost always cremated, and their ashes were buried in earth. j "it would, of course, be extremely 1

interesting if we found a skull, but that is not very probable.” He added that he also hopes to find implements and examples of Neolithic potteiy. Piebendar.y Chanter pointed out that in the west of England the Neolithic Age persisted, while most oilier parts ot the country had advanced into the Iron Age. lie believes that it remains arc ti mid in the '‘mound of death” they will add considerably to modern knowledge of the Neolithic period. ! Standing near the “mound of death" ; is an ancient way.-ide chapel which v.a-; ' icstorcd by Sir John Shelley.

Efforts were made recently to discover the remains of Danish wan iors who defeated the British under King Ethel red in. POl at the batik* of Pinhoe. These rema.iiLs were thought to lie in a great mound in a wood near I’inhoe. hut all endeavours f*> find them failed. 'The- Neolithic* Age was the Inter phase of the prehistoric. Stone Age civilisation which preceded the use of metals. ffTifr™ ,a T^ i^mTirmTij T*TT g^*^r^TrT)ir:'T)r*, '-i tt r— &sn**na***o t j