TREASURE TROVE.
tfe / • 500 SILVER PENNIES FOUND. i m'. -500 SILVER PENNIES FOUND | ||Jk Workmen- employed in removing Step-' Ife M 7 C vT°? th ® Du^° of foci's |i#. j; 1 Woburn Estate, have found some 500 silver \ 'r * jjennies, minted in the reign of Henry 111. skV: : The coins, which are dated between 1248 ps} ' and 1272, wero concealed sft below the pre- ' : 1 sent chancel floor and Ift bolow the ancient floor. It is thought that they were a votive . ♦offering in recognition of a safe return from ' - abroad, and placed ■ before a shrine of the [Virgin Maty by Peter di Vitella, who was rector of the village from 1247 to 1273. and died in Italy. Claim has been laid to 'jtao treasure on behalf • of ; the' Crown.. llmr< ...I,' .i, •■I. ■ miiui ■[ i^iiii. - T'mf
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15175, 14 December 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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137TREASURE TROVE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15175, 14 December 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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