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am vS xi I I 9 i hi crm LIVING THE I.LADL R-POST, RLGIN SASK. OLTOBLR 19. 1967 Archeologists seek Camelot Relics of limny-la) crcd )asl buried treasure of Britain of 1 seals ago A late call ant is the B15C with a dei lsion to sponsor, fm television, a tlnee-sear dig into a huge piehistonc mound called Silbuiy Hill in Wiltshire Archeologists have been eveing the lull specula-livelv for moje than a eentu-iv but its size has daunted them up to now It's 1.10 feet high and is estimated to contain 12 500 000 cubic feet of ma'eiial, making it the biggest prehistoric man made mound in Europe Its size even inhibited the Romans of aiound 100 AD. who liked to build roads straight as a string but who elided around the hill when one of their loads came up against it Experts tlunk it may date dig into bionze age barrows middle ages castles in Montgomeryshire, iron age earth- burial mounds in Dorset, works in Essex, a Roman fortress in Fife. The unending burrow nigs of the London undei ground system lap uiex-haustiblo lodes of the capitals many-lavered past And the curient digging season has been one of the most memo) able in decades, flavored with such historic-ro-mantic touches as a full-dress hunt for King Arthurs Camelot and a seaich for the grave of Lady Godiva she really existed even though skeptics doubt that famous horseback ride along with such solideT operations as woik on the treasure laden giaves of the East Anglian kings LONDON (CP) Briton.

Live in a tieasure house of buned yesterdays. Down through prelustoiy and the rise and fall of civilizations, most of the little island has been built over at one time or another A farm-boy turns up a crude gold bracelet form some forgotten eon, excavators in the London financial district strike a Temple of Mithras; a householder finds a potful of medieval coins, a head of the Emperor Hadrian, whose Homan legions once ruled Britannia, emerges from the Thames silt There is so much of Britains rich story drowsing just below the 20th centuij surface that every man can be his own archeologist They FALLS OIF TIGHTROPE: Mina Logalsheva, 36. a tightrope performer with the Moscow Cncus is earned from the ting by a clown after falling off the rope during her act in Boston Gardens A boll sheeied in two on one of the stands supporting the wne on which she was peiloiming ballet an angements. She was treated at a Boston hospital for biutses on her light elbow and left knee (AP Wnephoto). Dominion astronomer retires Shower of meteors highlight in career Automated teaching economically effective bar to the neighborhood of lOOtt BC It may have been a gi andiose Inn lal chamber for an ancient Wessex chieftain but in any case seems to indicate a piosperous society with well-developed civil engineering techniques The last pievious dig at Sil-burv Hill was made in 1948 But British areheologv is like that The historians know it will keep and they will get around to it in due course.

The same philosophy applies to a so-called 1,0110 000 giave at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, wheie operations weie lenewed this season after a 28-year lapse. Tt was back in 19.19 that excavators broke into this bui nil ground of East Anglian kings, turning up relic's of a giant-oared ship and the richest bciaid of tieasuie ever found in Britain, Four rov al graves weie found along with indications of the existence of a dozen more But then a war came along and the ship was hastily coveted up so the site could be used as a battle sc hool When it was te excavated, it was found to have been damaged by tanks running over it However, there is evidence of at least two more roval ship burials, though officials fear thcv mav have been looted bv 16th centuiy grave-robbers -w ho apparently missed the 1,000 090 grave bv a few feet But again theie is no uish to make sure The British Museum is planning lo open the leniaimng graves, a slow and painstaking job. al the rate of one a year starting with the fust next summer The same philnscmhv atiphrs idles of the caihc'tlal cltv of Oantorbui vs preh'slouc past, which were paillv turned tin bv a German bomb in a 1042 attack Only recently, when it was decided tn turn the ciafer aiea into a car jiark. have archeologists begun a race' against time to dig out an old settlement Thev hav found ulence nf a primitive village, with attic and daub houses built long before the Roman invaders came Of even earlier vmt ige is a find made this season at Glastonbury in Somerset In 1892 the remains of an ancient marsh village were discoveied in a peat bog near the town, and this year further mmmagmg bi ought up a Neolithic statuette dating back to between 2700 and 2000 BC. he hei maphrodilic figurine is one of the earliest examples of classic art ever found in Bi itdm Theyre searching out history under the sea.

too and one skin-diving expedition has come across ruins of an feet under the Channel waters Alantis type settlement 80 off Poitsmouth, apparently engulfed by subsidence of the land many centuries ago The remains include a for-tiess-hke structure and 400-pound stone balls which apparenth were catapult ammunition The discovetv lends some substance to local legends about coastal communities submerged a huge tidal wave and church bells under the sea The ruins seem to date fiotn around Roman times But the liveliest hunt of the season was launched near the village of South Cadbury in Somerset wheie a team of romanticallv-inclined archeologists went on the hunt for Camelot, the legendary court and place of King Arthur. The scene is near Glastonbury, accepted in medieval times as the Arthurian Ava-ton and where a set of outsize human 1 Hines were found in 1191 and relumed as Arthurs If ever there was an Arthur outside literature and piustcal conirdv he mav have been an idealized veision of a lough Cehic-llritish military commander of the bill centu-n thought to have used Cad-butv as a forliess base in operations against invading Saxons The six-week dig established that South Cad-bury was Hie largpst fortress site in Britain dining the 6th centum- but failed to confirm a positive link with Camelot Sir Mortimer Wheeler, noted archeologist and heavl of the Camelot Research Committee is philosophical The single-minded pursuit of scifnie" he wrote of the Cadbuiv dig. is none the woise for a little occasional eori upturn in the name nf romantic clnvalrv Efficient learning al a iiavnii; scientific field which includes tewer than a dozen Canadian women. Miss Burland reminisced about the thiee scientific expeditions on which she was the only woman The trips were made to watch et hpses of the sun, visible for a tew minutes over a veiy small aiea of land The most exciting moment came during the 1954 expedition when Miss Burland a the magnificent sight fiom the bubble observation seat an air force aircraft high over the Labrador coast Set to woik charting prominences or flames shooting sometimes hundreds of miles out from points on the suns surface. Miss Burland was doing her share to help international scientific research The data she collected weie lathoed to a point ill Ontario and relayed to Europe where Swedish scientists used the information in setting up their eclipse study equipment with pinpointing pieeision Befoie becoming accepted in her field, however, slim, By SUSAN BECKER OTTAWA (CP) Miriam Burland.

for 40 years a Dominion Observatory astronomer, leafed deftly thiougli the pages of a scientific text pined front the last box of possessions readv to take home from her olfice in the building with the dome On her last day at woik beloie retiring, she took time out to look up the date of a most interesting incident her long career of star-gazing a huge shower of meteois Oct 9, 1946. We knew the earth was going to go thiough the path of an old comet," she said, and we anted to get pictures of the meteors The fly the ointment tinned out to be the weather Ottawa skies were cloudy and rain was pelting down So with all the drama of a Second World War movie, huined arrangements weie made to fly the scientists to the clear anlage point ot Noith Bav, Ont where they watched thousands of meteois flash acioss the night sky Pi out! of her success in a BURNABY, BC (CP)-Oifi-cials at Simon Fraser University in tins Vancouver suburb have discoveied that modern, automated teaching methods not only aie efleilne but also save money Dr Ellis, head of the piofessional foundations department, says the university's automated biological sciences laboiatory offeis mote efficient learning at a saving of at least S2.060 060 on building eosts over 20 years. "We tend to think nf education in tei nis of bricks and mortar and lectures and laboratories. he says But I think we have demolish aled at SEU that ll is possible lo think of education in teims of wheels, wires and waves The univeisih contains a laboiatory wheie flirt yoai biology-students receive tlicr instruc- I lions fiom a combination of tape recordeis, slide piojectnrs, film loop pioiectois, models and specimens, lather than teachers. Students sit in booths and Its- ten to taped Icvlutes on aspects of biology which are koved tr a slide oi film presentation Assignments and lab exercises also are given bv tape Students tan go for lab instruction when thev please take as long as thev want I intent Mn lain Burland had to struggle against the prevailing attitude of the 1920s that astronomy was not a woman's job During her undergraduate years as a math and science student at McGill University where she graduated in 1926, Miss Bui land reteivel anything but eiuom agenient I wasn any brilliant scholar, she recalled whimsically 1 was extiemeiy fond of playing ice hotkey and I spent quite a bit of tune at it Perhaps, she suggested.

this was a mai against her in the minds of those who might have fosteied her interest in the (Ulficult subject But the year following graduation she had a stroke of luck Dr A Vibeil Douglas, later dean of women at Queen University in Kingston, was to teach a gt actuate course tri astrophysics Miss Burland enrolled and soon became caught up in Dr. Douglas enthusiasm The course led to a summer job at the Dominion Observa-toiy in 1927 This, turn, led to a caieer which included some time studying earthquakes as well as the heavens With the launching of Sputnik and the space age, more and moie people began to visit the observatory. Showing them around gradually got to be quite a job on its own she said. Eventually 1 took it on full time Now that she is retired. Miss Ruilatid will have mine time for her activities as a member of die Zonta Club a professional and executive womens oi gamzation She also expects to carry on her inteiest in the stars by woik-mg on some special projects in co-operation w'lth the Home shortage crisis foreseen at West End Drycleaners when they would start mariying and forming families Mr Melton said other pressures on housing weie the affluence of Canadians, tile loss of potential residential land to governments for such things as roadways and institutions, and the population shift to uibau areas Simpsons -Sears SPECIAL On All Shirts Brought In Thursday, Friday and Saturday FALL SALE OF Aluminum Doors and Windows All Homatt Aluminum Doots and Widows featuie: Self-storing inserts easily cleaned from inside Double wool piled weather stripped panels 2 to 3 times more wind resistant than am other make tested Guaranteed rattle free and draft proof SASKATOON (CP) Stan Melton of Edmonton, a leading realtor in western Canada, said Wednesday he expects residential housing to become increasingly hard to find over the next few yeais.

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