Your playlist will load after this ad The tradie working on the strengthening of the heritage-listed building that made the discovery is calling it fate. Source: 1 NEWS
He felt the drill drop into an unexpected space between the walls below, where there should have been concrete.
“We ve got to investigate that,” he told 1 NEWS.
Directly below in the gallery where the drilling had occurred above, another hole was created in a nearby wall to find the space.
Awa put his hand in the hole, removing what he thought was rubbish.
“Realised straight away soon as I grabbed it that, ‘Aw hang on a minute, that s not rubbish’ so we ve carefully removed what it was and discovered all the treasure.”