MYSTERY OF A CAVE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12750, 23 March 1910, Page 4

MYSTERY OF A CAVE.

* The '■romantic neighbourhood of Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, has been the scene recently of a mysterious search, conducted with close secrecy by two American visitors, Dr. Prescott, of Boston, and Dr. Owen; of Detroit. ' . . v '. ' Chepstow Castle, a handsome eleventh-century ruin, stands on the summit of cliffs washed by the Wye, and these cliffs abound with caves. In one of the caves, almost Lidden. under masses of moss" and ivy the Americans and their assistants have for some weeks past been busy with pick .'and shovel. Their operations' aroused much- curiosity, but the object of the search was kept secret until the other day, when it leaked out that they expected to uhearth documents of great historical interest and importance. The doctors stayed at a Chepstow hotel tend breathed no word of their strange ijuest. Though an invalid, Dr. Owen joined Enthusiastically in the search . It" is stated^that he believes that the cave contains documents which have not seen the light for over 300 years. The cave was searched first ' to the right, then to tho left, then straight' on and afterwards downwards toward tho tide line of the Wye. No papers were discovered, and the two doctors have now returned to America, but their hopes are not abandoned, and they have signified their intention to renew the search, and for this purpose are said to have obtained the exclusive right of boring and delving in the caves.