The House That Jack Built: The True Story Behind the Marsden Grotto and the Search for Roman Treasure

by Michael J. Hallowell

The House That Jack Built is one of the strangest tales in British history, and begins with an old lead miner and his wife who took up residence in a remote cave on a windswept beach in South Shields. A pub was built within the cave and a concerted search initiated to find buried Roman treasure hidden in a complex network of underground caves and tunnels. Before long, a desperate battle took place between Peter Allan -South Shields' real-life Indiana...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848680678
• ISBN13: 9781848680678
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages