The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-10
TREASURE TROVE.
The Crown Appropriates All Money
Found in England

That Treasure Trove" runs in
! grooves every one who pays any at
| tention to the archaeological discoveries
| cannot fail to notice; one year will
| show run upon Roman and other re-
mains of an architectural character, the
| next twelve months will reveal vast
| quantities of skeletons, to the joy of
| coroners, whose elation will be shared
| by the Treasury when the turn of the
wheel brings about the year devoted to
the discovery of coin, for the Govern
ment officials are keen archaeologists
when treasure trove of value is re-
vealed, and do not leave stone un-
turned in their effort to obtain possess
sion of the find When the treasure
happens to consist of pre- historic
bones, apparently the Treasury's policy
is to let sleeping ichthyosauri lie; al all
events, we have never seen it recorded
that the Treasury put in a claim for
bones-even though they be of a paae-
olithic inhabitant of -st.-however
interesting they may be to the scientist.
The year 1897 was undoubtedly bony
year, but of the numerous skeletons of
Romans, Britons and gentlemen killed
in the Wars of the Roses that were UNI
earthed we will, with two exceptions,
say nothing; but the singular find made
about that time in Paris Of two leaden
collins, dated 1880. deserves a special
mention. The collins contained two
skeletons, and the skull of one was
found to be filled with white crystals
which chemical analysis declared to be
the exceedingly rare substance known
as bicalcinate of phosphorus, which has
only been once before found in like cir
cumstances The skull of the second
body contained only a few crystals of
that chemical, and the question that
arises is, How did the crystals come
there? The same year saw the Mid
dlesborough Museum enriched by fine
specimen of a skull of a prehistoric
man who is supposed to have discarded
his headgear some five thousand years
ago. This interesting relic, which was
dredged up in the bed of the Tees, was
to the Museum by Sir Joseph
Pease, M. p, on behalf Of the Tees Con-
Commissioners
The rapaCity of the Treasury in re-
respect to overriding the claims to trea-
sure trove put forward by poor but in
different honest folk received striking |
exemplifcation late in May 1897, when |
G 70 14s, all in silver coins, of which the |
latest date was 1872, was discovered in |
q pail buried under the staircase Of a |
house occupied several years ago by
miser in Tenter Court, Bethnal Green.
on the discovery being made known
about a hundred Poles living in the
promptly claimed the
money as theirs and the finder had to
peat off the crowd that sWarmed about
aim with a spade, especially one lady,
Oent upon obtaining nine points of the
aw in her favor by taking possession
IF the find, who rushed at him like a
tiger from the Zoo" Notwithstanding
he effort of the noble one hundred, the
Treasury got the money, to accumulate
which the miser deprived himself Of
God and clothing, and allowed the par
sh to bury him. About the same time
he Crown came in for d nice little haul
ound at Balcombe near CraWley, while
ONE laborers were laying out a lawn.
n this instance the treasure consisted
+ a metal vessel containing twelve