The Mag - 186

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." - Lao Tzu


THE MAG

My Magpie emerges, from within a deep, dark and dreary grave and the finding of a simple wooden box marked with a cross.  It was a blistering, hot day in July when this box was unearthed from beneath a stone slab, after being buried centuries ago at St. Ninian's Isle.

It all began during an excavation close to a medieval church on July 4th, 1958.

Map provided by Tess Kincaid

Hidden Treasure
be

Unearthed

There once was a noblewoman

who had a nephew
named Bonaventure
who wholeheartedly charted a global
adventure
in search of
St. Ninian's buried Treasure.

 

Did this lad know he was about 55 years too late?

Would it matter if he did?

 For this summer of discovery

his mission

by commission

of his dear aunt
the noblewoman,
Bonaventure's adventure
was all too late.

 

Without any doubts,
records state
that

Douglas Coutts
(a local school lad)
conquered the discovery
of the

tricky little buried treasure

already.

 

Oh why, oh why

couldn't he,
Bonaventure
be

the one

to unearth

28 silver and silver-gilt

objects?

Decorated

from

the 8th or 9th century
these

Pictish objects

adored by all

including
other objects 
of weapons
things for feasting 

and jewelry
all

unearthed
inside

one wooden box

and including

seven feasting bowls

one elaborate hanging bowl

a spoon decorated
with a dog's head

a curved prong to eat

shellfish

and not one dove

in a pair tree

be

unearthed

by one lad not of Noble hood?

 

 

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Written for a children's book series of Historical Fiction.