Visigoth tomb?
NZPA-AP Cosena Road workers have uncovered a large tomb that could be the treasure-filled burial site of the fifth century Visigothic king, Alaric I, the Italian news agency ANSA has reported. ANSA said the tomb was discovered by workers building a road on the outskirts of Cosena, in
southern Italy, in the arch of the Italian “boot.” The tomb is 2.5 metres high, six metres long and three metres wide, it said. Government officials and local archeologists have yet to make any comment on the find, which is under heavy guard, but ANSA quoted sources as saying there/jas a good chanee that U«was Alaric’s tomb.
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Press, 12 April 1984, Page 4
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