Things We Found in the Ground

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 Guardian Online 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.

'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'A joyful read, brimming with personal experience and unique insight into the ancient past. This is a book I would firmly press into the hands of a young reader before booting them outside' HELEN CARR