Join us for a journey through the hidden history of Britain as metal detecting cousins Eleanor Bruce and Lucilla Gray talk about about their new book Things We Found in the Ground.
In this guide-that’s-not-a-guide,detectorists Ellie and Lucie explore their local landscape, getting to grips with the hobby, history and themselves along the way.
Beginning with their first meeting in over 20 years at their grandfather’s home in Lincolnshire, the two cousins – Eleanor and Lucilla – quickly learn that each has a fascination with unearthing historic artifacts, which will set them off on their metal detecting journey …
Over many weeks and months spent digging countless holes, the pair make startling discoveries: about the objects they find and what they tell us about our ancestors, about themselves and who they are as people, and about the power of community, as they forge connections with local villagers, detectorists and history lovers along the way.
This charming tale of (self-)discovery will capture the hearts and minds of those seeking escapism through the buried history that we walk over every day.
Reviews
‘Things We Found in the Ground captures that rush of excitement you only get from a signal beneath the soil. A joyful account of unearthing history, one discovery at a time.’ SALLY COULTHARD
‘Enchanting and visceral, this familial and adventurous history takes us along bustling field boundaries, through boggy ditches and out into the wild in search of the past hidden just beneath our feet.’ DR MADELEINE PELLING
‘Brilliantly witty and magnificently down to earth, this glittering gem of a book will have you laughing out loud as it enthrals you with the tantalising history hiding just beneath our feet’ REBECCA STRUTHERS
‘An uplifting dive into the world of metal detecting’ LARA MAIKLEM
The authors
Cousins Ellie and Lucie are a metal detecting duo united by their shared interest in history and design. A lockdown hobby to explore the outdoors quickly evolved into a deep-rooted passion for the history beneath our feet and inspired the creative journey that became Roman Found, which now has a combined online
following of over 250,000. Within the metal detecting world, they are active self-recorders of their finds on the
Portable Antiquities Scheme and have been featured on the cover of Searcher Magazine, in the Guardian, on ITV’s This Morning, and worked with brands like Barbour and LP Metal Detecting.
Tickets: £10 without book (admits one, £8 redeemable against a signed copy of Things We Found in the Ground) or £20 (admits one, includes signed copy of Things We Found in the Ground))