QUEST FOR LOOT
BUT DATE WAS WRONG. London, August 6. Hundreds of holiday-makers at Newtown Bay, Glamorganshire, enjoyed some excitement in a gold hunt among - the ruins of an ancient inn, formerly a haunt of smugglers and wreckers. Children playing in the ruins declared that they dislodged a stone in a fireplace, disclosing a wallet of old coins and faded paper on which was written: “Plans of ye olde red house and ye cellar,” indicating the burial place of a gold chest, with the words, “Ye loot bureed.” Willing search parties removed many tons of sand, and excitement rose high when a stone staircase was discovered as indicated on the plan. Scores more searchers feverishly joined in until the owner, Sir Thos. Jones, fearing that the digging would cause a fall of the ruins, thus endangering the treasure hunters’ lives, prohibited further excavation. It was then that two scho6lboys confessed to hoaxing the countryside by making the plan. They pointed to the date on it, Apiil 1,” the significance of which the enthusiastic treasure hunters had missed.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3192, 19 August 1930, Page 7
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177QUEST FOR LOOT King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3192, 19 August 1930, Page 7
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