Metal-detecting influencers Eleanor Bruce and Lucilla Gray, also known as Roman Found, have just featured on BBC’s The One Show!

They were taking presenter Jacqui Joseph around Detectival—the official metal-detecting festival—and showing her the ropes.

Roman Found’s feature starts at 12:05 minutes into the broadcast.

Don’t miss out; watch them here!

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.

Things We Found in the Ground will be published in Spring 2026 and is available for pre-order now. Grab your copy here or, better, via your local bookstore and bookshop.org.

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