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Fergus joins Lucy Gray and Ellie Bruce for a metal detecting adventure in Essex, exploring their discoveries and new book.

Come metal-detecting in the Essex countryside with Ellie Bruce and Lucy Gray – who call themselves Roman Found. After taking up detecting during the first Covid lockdown, Lucy and Ellie have been sharing their exciting discoveries on social media and built up a huge following. Now they have written their first book: Thing We Found in the Ground (Harper North)Plodcast host Fergus joined Ellie and Lucy for a morning's detecting – and to learn more about the world of detectorists. They even found something...Our Facebook page is back! Search "BBC Countryfile Magazine - Plodcast Community" or join the discussion here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/countryfilemagazineplodcast/?ref=shareThe BBC Countryfile Magazine Plodcast is the Publishers Podcast Awards Special Interest Podcast of the Year 2024 & 2025 and the PPA Podcast of the Year 2022. If you've enjoyed the plodcast, don't forget to leave likes and positive reviews. Contact the Plodcast team and send your sound recordings of the countryside to: theplodcast@countryfile.com. If your letter, email or message is read out on the show, you could WIN a Plodcast Postbag prize of a wildlife- or countryside-themed book chosen by the…

People in this episode

Host: Fergus

Guests: Lucy Gray, Ellie Bruce

Topics covered

• metal detecting
• Essex countryside
• archaeology
• Covid lockdown
• book release
• detectorists

Keywords

• metal detecting
• Essex
• archaeology
• Covid
• Roman Found
• Thing We Found in the Ground
• detectorists

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Roman Found, BBC Countryfile Magazine, Harper North, PPA

Books & works: Thing We Found in the Ground

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