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We are looking forward to various forthcoming events including our Finds Day on 27 July, a summer-long collaboration with Black Swan Arts, and Heritage Open Day on 7 September.
We are also pleased to be making an important local social history archive available on our website.
Our July Object of the Month is an Iron Age quern discovered near Frome.
Plus, you can now support us online.
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Festival of Archaeology - new display and Museum Finds Day on 27 July
On 27 July the museum will be hosting a Finds Day to mark the UK’s annual Festival of Archaeology, and throughout July we have a special month-long temporary display on the theme of archaeology.
On the Finds Day, we will be joined by several experts, including representatives from the Bath and Counties Archaeological Society, who will be talking about a current local dig and other recent archaeological activity in the Frome area.
Laura Beckwith, the South West Heritage Trust’s Finds Liaison Officer for Somerset, will be hosting a number of pre-booked 20-minute sessions throughout the day, when she will meet local finders to discuss and answer questions about their discoveries.
The sessions will be very popular and are likely to be snapped up well in advance. You can contact Laura at somerset.finds@swheritage.org.uk to enquire about her availability.
Heritage Open Day at the Museum
7 September
On 7 September Frome Museum will once again be participating in the annual UK-wide Heritage Open Days event.
We will be hosting a talk by Mike Bishop, who retired last year after 17 years as Frome’s town crier. Mike will tell us about the history of the town crier tradition and about his own life as a crier.
We will also be running two of our ever-popular Behind the Scenes tours of the museum.
All the events are available to book now. They are free of charge and open to all, but numbers will be limited and tickets will be required to attend.
Please support us!
Frome Museum is run entirely by volunteers and does not receive any regular funding.
Please consider supporting our work with a donation today.
Research
The museum’s library and collections room are open for researchers. Please call 01373 454611 to book an appointment.
Alternatively, our online collections catalogue provides digital access to over 23,000 items and records, ranging from photographs to documents and artefacts.
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The Story of the Frome Hoard
The museum has a new display for 2024, ‘The Story of the Frome Hoard’.
This important local discovery is the largest coin hoard found in Britain to date, and the second largest treasure hoard.
Unearthed in 2010 by local metal detectorist Dave Crisp, it comprises 52,503 Roman coins contained in a ceramic pot, and has been dated to the period AD 253 to 293.
The new display showcases a replica of the urn and part of the coin hoard and tells their fascinating story.
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