GAVE UP FARMING.
TO DIG FOR RELICS. DISCOVERED BURIAL SHIP. ROPES TO FIND QUEEN'S TOMB. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, March 30. Archaeology has replaced farming as the main interest in life of Mr. Stanley Brown, of Rockinghall, Suffolk. His digging is now confined to the search for ancient relics. Not long ago he discovered the burial ship of an AngloSaxon chief, believed to be King Red-
wald, at Sutton Hoo. Now he hopes to unearth the grave of Redwald's Queen.
"There are still nine mounds at Sutton Hoo waiting to be excavated," he said this week. "Wo shall probably open the one nearest to Redwald's next, I think it may 'be the grave of his Queen, and in that case may contain great riches."
Redwald's burial ship contained gold, silver and jewelled objects of untold value, which were given Jo the nation by Mrs. E. M. Pretty, the owner of the land. The British Museum described the find as the greatest ever made in England.
Mr. Brown, who reads the Venerable Bcdo in his spare time, confessed that he lost money as a farmer. He has investigated many more burial mounds in Suffolk which are waiting to be excavated. One grave at Brockstead, near Sutton Hoo, is 100 feet across. •
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 94, 20 April 1940, Page 7
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