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Things We Found in the Ground : A Metal-Detecting Journey Through Britain

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Things We Found in the Ground : A Metal-Detecting Journey Through BritainAuthor: Eleanor Bruce United Kingdom, Great Britain Published on 9 April 2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperNorth) in the United Kingdom. Hardback 320 pages, 20 b w, illus, 20 col plates (8pp) 163 x 241 x 31 500g In this guide thats 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. Enchanting and visceral DR MADELEINE PELLING Brilliantly

Author: Eleanor Bruce

United Kingdom, Great Britain

Published on 9 April 2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperNorth) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 320 pages, 20 b/w, illus, 20 col plates (8pp)
163 x 241 x 31 | 500g

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.

‘Enchanting and visceral’ DR MADELEINE PELLING

‘Brilliantly witty and magnificently down to earth’ DR REBECCA STRUTHERS

‘A joyful account of unearthing history, one discovery at a time’ SALLY COULTHARD

'An uplifting dive into the world of metal detecting' LARA MAIKLEM

'A joyful read, brimming with personal experience and unique insight’ HELEN CARR

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.

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