Kourion: Alessandro Palma di Cesnola's digging

Alessandro (Alexander) Palma di Cesnola began digging on his own account with the financial support of Edwin H. Lawrence¹. In October or November 1876 he sent a party of five men to Kurium, which returned with few finds¹. In August 1877 he dug at Kourion with ten men, in the same spot where, he says, a predecessor had found a treasure, and reported gold and silver fibulae, rings, ear-rings and a necklace. After about a fortnight he left for Larnaka, he says because of adverse talk in the village coffee-houses, leaving one man, who returned a month later with silver and bronze objects and twenty or more earrings¹. Veronica Tatton-Brown places the episode within opposition from villagers and an official complaint from the Ottoman administration to the Italian Government². Cesnola says the relics he brought from Cyprus were shown at Lawrence's house in Holland Park, London¹.