Why Frome is still cashing in on the Romans

Guardian ^ | Dec 12, 2010 | Maev Kennedy

[Islander7]

Dave Crisp found treasure on a soggy ridge outside the Somerset town of Frome last April, and helped rewrite history. On a bitter winter afternoon, as he walks the frosty field again, he recalls one of the most heart-stoppingly exciting moments of his life. The 63-year-old ex-army man had discovered a scattering of Roman silver coins in the field. He came back a few days later with his detector, bought secondhand on eBay, to round up any remaining broken pieces. The signals were faint and confusing.

[Islander7]

What he found that afternoon is now stacked in a waist-high pile of shoe box-sized cardboard boxes, in a corner of an office in the coins department of the British Museum – a Diagon Alley place of mysteries, on two floors, protected by a three-inch-thick strongroom door.

[Islander7]

Ping

[David Isaac]

I think I would favor more the idea of the stash being a personal hoard of someone of great power.

[StonyBurk]

Especially because the Vikings were still Centuries away in the future and the Irish were “behaving themselves.”

[SunkenCiv]

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[colorado tanker]

I lost my coin collection on my last trip to Frome. Thanks for finding it . . . .