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.
1 posted on
07/08/2010 5:15:40 AM PDT by
csvset
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2 posted on
07/08/2010 5:17:27 AM PDT by
csvset
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Thanks! Very interesting. Says the coins wereprobably an offerto the gods.
In the 3rd century it seems to me it wasmoreprobably a hoard?
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Boy, is the price of those coins going to drop.
5 posted on
07/08/2010 5:51:37 AM PDT by
raybbr
(Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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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.
7 posted on
07/08/2010 5:58:02 AM PDT by
NavyCanDo
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"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 ...
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07/08/2010 6:37:23 AM PDT by
Scythian
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18 posted on
07/08/2010 7:05:34 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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I hope he managed to “lose” a few before her majesty’s gubmint took the cache.
25 posted on
07/08/2010 8:36:04 AM PDT by
Professional Engineer
(Conservative States of America has a nice ring to it.)
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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.
27 posted on
07/08/2010 10:40:46 AM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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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.
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