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Things We Found in the Ground by Eleanor Bruce & Lucilla Gray

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In this guide-that’s-not-a-guide, metal detectorist cousins Ellie and Lucie explore their local landscape, getting to grips with the hobby, history and themselves along the way.

Published 9 Apr 2026 (Preorder)
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About The Book

In this guide-that’s-not-a-guide, metal detectorist cousins 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.

About the Authors

Ellie and Lucie have over three years’ experience in the field, digging holes. Within the metal detecting world, they are active self-recorders of their finds on the Portable Antiquities Scheme and they have been featured on the cover of Searcher Magazine, the biggest hobby magazine for metal detecting. They also have sponsorship with LP Metal Detecting, one of the biggest metal detecting retailers and event organisers in the industry. Outside of the digging world, they have featured in press for the GuardianOnline and Observer Magazine, appeared in a segment for ITV’s This Morning and Loose Women, been interviewed on BBC Radio 5 and starred in It’s A Way of Life, Episode 6: ‘Past Times’ for the brand Barbour
Binding

Hardback

Author

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ISBN

9780008737603

Page Count

320

Publisher

HarperNorth

Published

9 Apr 2026

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