Eleanor Bruce & Lucilla Gray: Things We Found in the Ground: A Metal Detecting Journey Through Britain

Saturday 23 May 1:30pm, QUAD DE1 3AS

This event will be filmed and made available as a digital recording after the Festival. Available for purchase here.

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, they quickly learn that each has a fascination with unearthing historic artefacts, 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 about the power of community, as they forge connections with local villagers, detectorists and history lovers.

'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

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