The articles of jewellery and ornament, Mr, Wilson thinks, may: ho. of greater taterest and value than the coins, They include an <[uniarnished vinye of pure gold, beween la rectangular form, roughly hilt an ounce. lation of fairly heavy silver, meter, beautifully ome bossed and engraved in the clearest geometrical design, and having Cleht of its "nine "original silver studs stil in position, ig, Mey Wite [with the heavy gold ring and re= [ments of a elaxp and crumbled Nigold Face ux a fastener for his There are gold finger-rings and other minor articles of interest in he collect "Elsewhere in safe keeping," Me. Wilson told a "Daily Mail" reporter, ["E have salvaged from this inners {most cave bags of soil which, on examination, may yield a further ests My veal hope, once Saxon remaitis, was that get Gnd a Saxon iptures, In this not succeeded.
"Riy theory throughout hag been their battles with the Me Danes the retreating Saxons of Eastern and Midland England, repulsed by the Northumbrians, tok sheller in the eaves of Peake land and were there, many of them, slaughtered or starved, for the first time ina thou-years T- have disturbed the hiding-places and revealed suspected mementoes of those Mere'
refugees."
Spacious as Churches Mr Wilson has been working a spot below the Beeston Cliffs ard bordering on the Manifold River. 'The public has access to the caves' that lie there almost beneath the shadow of Chatsworth, but ost of those who knew of Mr. have found several other totally unlighted chambers, some as spacious as churches and some the size of aver~ fage rooms, Then, groping by hidden passages, T came last week on the almost ' completely silted-up. entry to my. treawere-chamber.
about 250ft, inward and has over a root of rock 200f:. thick. I had to travel on hands and knees through about 20ft. of a passage now nearly choked with fallen earth, ea emall lamp and sach implements as. one by one,
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