THE GLOZEL TOMBS

Evening Star, Issue 19698, 27 October 1927, Page 5

THE GLOZEL TOMBS

DECEIVING THE EXPERTS FARM LABORER’S CLAIM RELICS PLANTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 26. (Received October 27, at 1.30 a.m.) The ‘ Daily Sketch ’ says that Hunter Charles Rogers, who has often been exposed in the 1 Daily Sketch ’ as a dealer in spurious documents and pictures, asserts that lie planted the relics at Glozel. He says: “With an Englishman now in America 1 went to France with stones, implements, and vases, and, seeking a farmer’s Help, I dug them in, the idea being to lead a party of discovery in 1928. I ran out of money, and the farmer, in order to benefit himself, began discovering the things prematurely. Most of them were genuine, but others were copies i made. We bought a lot of genuine prehistoric stall', and bad a few genuine stones bearing prehistoric drawings of reindeer and horses. "We made more by scratching stones with glass and old razor blades. It is easy to deceive experts. 1 am only a Buckinghamshire farm laborer, but I have hoaxed the world in my time.”- —Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable,

[A message received on September 20 stated:—The Paris correspondent of the ‘ Daily News ’ says that if M. Dussaud, the arclucologist, be correct in bis deductions, a tremendous scientific hoax is exploded. M. Dussaml told a secret meeting of the Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Arts that the field of dead at Glozel, _ where _ supposedly authentic prehistoric objects were found in tombs, was a fraud. The inscriptions, purporting to reveal the world's oldest alphabet, were inked, and the drawings of animals wore quite recent, and possibly done by schoolboys. The hones of animals were the remains of modern coivs. The Glozol tombs were discovered in 1924, and contained 200 objects, which it was supposed were associated with prehistoric man, the eeriest being imprints of hands on an inscription tablet in ono of the tombs. M. Dussaud assorts (hat (ho discoveries were clumsily fabricated by modern persons.]