A LARGER museum site is needed in Bradford on Avon to display larger exhibits and attract more visitors, according to the chairman of the museum society.

Mervyn Harris believes more visitors would be attracted if there was more space to display in the museum.

He said: "Our museum is really now too small for our needs. We are constrained in terms of what we can do."

He said some larger exhibits, from stone quarries and the Avon Rubber factory, are too big to be displayed in the small site above Bradford Library.

The society is to fight for a larger building within the town's Kingston Mill site and has put together a business plan for discussion at meetings between town representatives and site developer Taylor Woodrow.

Mr Harris said: "We are interested in the vaulted building at the north end of Lambs Yard which we think would suit our use quite well."

Cllr Michael Bowen is also keen for a new museum site. He believes the Roman relics from St Laurence School's playing field should be displayed in Bradford and not at Devizes Museum, where they are currently on show.

He said: "We don't want Brad-ford's Roman remains being shown in every town except our own."

Mr Harris plans to talk to the Devizes Museum board to see if an arrangement can be made for the relics to be displayed in Bradford in the future.