RICH YIELDS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1933, Page 6

RICH YIELDS

PARADISE FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS

EXCAVATIONS IN HUNGARY.

LONDON, March 13,

The past year lias yielded a rich harvest of archaeological funds in Hungary, and the Nemzeti Ujsag reports that in many provinces the lf-o.iiSaii.ts have- taken up excavating as a permanent occupation. For the past few years .agents have been buying up objects or archaeological interest for nominal sums, and re-selling them at considerable profit to foreign dealers and collectors. Of late, however, the' peasants have become enlightened about the value of their finds, /and sell these to the museum in the nearest country town.

In the districts of Szentendre, Esztorgom, Eger, Pecs, Roniarom, where the .price of wheat its particularly low, the farmers have started excavating, instead of', as before, sowing grain. One family is table to-. turn up as much bs- two acres of ground in a year, and the work carried out so expertly that the frailest glass and pottery is brought up undamaged. One peasant is stated to be renting the land at £6 or £7 the acre, and to be playing workers to excavate it.