Trowbridge silver store steel detector ace to give talk

By Craig Jones

Dave Crisp with his steel detector with mother Shirley and grandson Aaron

Metal detecting fan Dave Crisp will be holding a lunchtime speak at the Wiltshire Heritage Centre in Devizes at 1.10pm on Wednesday.


The speak by the member of the Trowbridge Metal Detecting Club will be using with a display of the group’s finds now at the museum.


The session, called Saving Wiltshire’s Heritage, will run until 1.50pm with visitors acquire to move their own sandwiches.

In Apr of 2010, Mr Crisp, of Waylands, Devizes, found a large store of 52,503 Roman coins buried in a margin in Frome.


They were found in a singular enclosure and were the second largest collection of Roman coins ever to be found in Britain.


To safeguard the coins stayed in the nation some-more than £400,000 was lifted which authorised the coins to go display at museums across the south west.


Tea and coffee will be supposing at the Devizes event. For some-more information call 01380 727369 or revisit www.wiltshireheritage.org.uk .

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