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The story of the excavation will be told in a new BBC Two archaeology series, Digging for Britain, presented by Dr Alice Roberts and made by 360production, to be broadcast in August.

There's a pic and a short video interview of Mr. Crisp at the source.

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[squarebarb]

Thanks! Very interesting. Says the coins wereprobably an offerto the gods.

In the 3rd century it seems to me it wasmoreprobably a hoard?

[raybbr]

Boy, is the price of those coins going to drop.

[NavyCanDo]

With the wave of electronic games taking over the World over the last decade my 8-year old must be the only kid in the U.S. who asked for a metal detector for Christmas. And Santa brought him one.

I'm going to have to show him this story. Right now he finds an old railroad spike or tire iron and you would thing he found the Lost Dutchman mine.

[Scythian]

"Because Mr Crisp resisted the temptation to dig up the coins, it has allowed archaeologists from Somerset County Council to carefully excavate the pot and its contents," said Anna Booth, local finds liaison officer.

Big mistake there, now the state and the "experts" will claim them as their own, had I found them I would have dug them up and went home. Stupid, stupid, stupid ...

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks csvset. 52,000 coins seems like kind of a lot. :') Either a Roman-era Silas Marner, or a gov't or temple or maybe military treasury? Now I gotta go read it. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[Professional Engineer]

I hope he managed to “lose” a few before her majesty’s gubmint took the cache.

[a fool in paradise]

The hoard of more than 52,000 coins dating from the 3rd Century AD was found buried in a field near Frome in Somerset. The coins were found in a huge jar just over a foot (30cm) below the surface by Dave Crisp, from Devizes in Wiltshire.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I was just going to do a search on this in preparation to posting it. Glad you saved me the trouble! Interesting story.

The picture caption said the coins were found in a “jar” but the article said they were found in a “pot”. Does anyone know the container for sure? The age of the container should provide a clue as to who buried it.