Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1912 — RELICS OF THE BRONZE AGE [ARTICLE]

RELICS OF THE BRONZE AGE

Remarkable Find of Prehistoric Weapons and Ornaments Made in I Karst Mountains. A remarkable find of prehistoric weapons and ornaments has been made in a cavern at St Kanzion, in the Karst mountains, not far from Abbazia. The cavern, which is known as the “Cave of Flies,” from the number of insects which, apparently breeding there, issue forth at certain times of the year, is a subterranean chamber witty a perpendfctyiaf depth of one hundredlns Ifty feet, the only entrance to which is by a hole in the roof. It was recently explored by some climbers with the help of a loner rope ladder. A Roman helmet, dating froni the beginning of the Christian era, which the. owner had apparently dropped down the hole, was first found. Encouraged by this the Imperial museum sent men to dig Into the earth and stones which have fallen from the roof and sides and form the floor of the cavern, and at a depth of three feet they discovered over a thousand articles of bronze, Including two hundred lance heads, a number of swords, axes, clasps and vessels. The last named had all been burned through by fire. The date of the articles Is estimated at about 1000 B. C. Since it appears impossible that men in the bronze age should have lived at the bottom of such a deep and Inaccessible cavern archaeologists believe the weapons and vessels must have been thrown down the hole as a sacrifice to some subteranean deity.—Vienna Correspondence London Standard.