YOUNG ENTHUSIASTS
The bovg of Am lpeforth Collcgo in Yorkshire nro digging up the past. Though they are young they go in search of what is old, aiul their search iag been rewarded, for within a short distance* of the college they have come Upon two ancient graves, in ono of they have found the bones of People who lived in the Bronze Age. Under the expert guidance of a Wiember of the Yorkshire Archaeological oociety the boys have dug into a pit pearly five feet deep and have found a food \irn, with burned bones and the body of a little child. Lower in the grave were three skeletons, one belonging to a child. The bones are thought to be about 8400 year old, and all the relics are to treasured at the collcfgs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22955, 5 February 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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135YOUNG ENTHUSIASTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22955, 5 February 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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