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That’s not a potato: mystery of Egyptian treasures found buried in grounds of Scottish school
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Yet this was to be the first of 18 Egyptian antiquities unearthed on three separate occasions by schoolboys over some 30 years in the most unexpected of places – Melville House, an historic building near the small parish of Monimail in Fife.
Fourteen years later, in 1966, an Egyptian bronze votive statuette of an Apis bull was found in the same school grounds by pupils doing a PE class outdoors.
Goring recalled her predecessor, Aldred, telling her about previous Egyptian finds in Melville’s grounds, and she realised that the figurine found there must be connected.
Goring’s research extended to the antiquities’ legal title, to establish whether they had been assembled by a member of the Leven and Melville family who had once occupied the property.
The story of the discoveries is being told for the first time by Goring and her successor, Dr Margaret Maitland, in the forthcoming Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, to be published on 30 November.
One possible explanation is that they were acquired by Alexander, Lord Balgonie, heir to the property, who visited Egypt in 1856 with his two sisters to improve his poor health after falling ill during service in the Crimean war.
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