And in spite of the doleful antiations of seaside-mayors and cor-
Scarborough and the lost luggage hustled round to its owners. The railway company certainly did all it could, paying out considerable sums for what may be called interim dance frocks and bathing sults. But it would be interesting to. know how those vans strayed s0 far afield.
To-morrow the inquest willie held to decide the ownership of one of the greatest finds of ancient treasures of modern, times, all the quantities of gold and silver jewels and utensils dug up in the boat grave of some Saxon chieftain (for he was buried in a boat 85 feet long) in.the grounds of Mrs. EM. Pretty" at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. The law of "treasure trove" 1s as complicated as most Inw; in this inquest everything urns on the meaning of the words "hidden in the soil." Scholars argue that as the boat and its contents were a votive offering for the dead chiefiain's use in the next world they belong to tre all, otherwise the owner of the soil, Mrs, Pretty. Otherwise they goto the Crown (hat means the British Museum) which, however, would have to pay Mrs. Pretty a substantial part of their value, which of course is really beyond calculation, Who this Saxon Tutankhamen was yao me say King Raedwald, a famous Saxon warrior—is not certain, though hho clearly lived in the seventh conury. "What is clear is the high state of "artistic skill" attained" by "the Saxon craftsmen. One piece isa large silver dish which was certainly made in Byzantium, then the centre of civilization and of splendid art But the goldsmiths of "the far off north knew their business, as this wealth of golden buckles and clasps, silver dishes, silver-mounted drinking. horns, armlets, chains and plaques, enriched with' garnets and enamel, clearly shows. One interesting piece the golden framework of a great purse containing ingots of gold and 19 gold coins of the Merovingian Franks of about 600 A. D. Besides precious metals many utensils and weapons of iron and bronze were found in the boat. The chieftain was well provided for the next worl One wonders whether, perhaps, it was not a better way io bury his treasures with him than leave them to be wrangled over by the family fas the modern habit is had gone with a mere £100 worth of baubles.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.