Word: tourrenc
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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Unseemly Haste. Alarmed last year when ten acres of farm land across the Rhône from Vienne was acquired for the badly needed school, Archaeologists Serge Tourrenc and Marcel Le Glay quietly began to probe beneath a peach orchard, suspecting that it covered ancient ruins of Roman Vienne. Three feet beneath the surface, on their first try, they found a colorful Roman mosaic. They alerted Malraux, then, with his support, proceeded to excavate five acres of the orchard with almost unseemly haste, hoping to prove the historical value of the site before the townspeople of Vienne could realize that...
Archaeologists Tourrenc and Le Glay will now excavate the remaining five acres, hoping to find the remnants of Vienne's stadium, which is mentioned in the writing of Pliny the Younger. If they are unsuccessful, the citizens and builders of Vienne could yet be frustrated. For who knows? The stadium or some other important ruin-may well lie beneath the new school site...
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