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Eleanor Bruce

Co-founder of Roman Found, a metal-detecting duo sharing archaeological discoveries and history from Britain; author of Things We Found in the Ground

May 31, 2026

22:54
And what's the most exciting find that you had?
22:59
That is, I think, the hardest question that people ask us.
23:02
There is...
23:04
Because what do you say? Because, like, all the finds are so different.
23:07
So, like, is it the Roman finds? Is it the gold? Is it the Bonsaige axe, which is, like, literally the oldest thing a detectress can find in Britain? Like, what is the most exciting thing? Because I feel like every find's exciting in its own way.
23:21
And it's more than often, it's the story and the research that comes after that makes that find more exciting.
23:27
Like, it might not look like anything in the ground, but then you might find out that that tiny fragment of silver has been brought in by the Vikings.
26:38
If you find it and it's worth something, you split the...
28:31
Yeah.
28:31
Yeah, and into Tudor.
28:32
There were only, it was only, I think it was 16, it was in the 1600s that they brought in milling.
28:37
So it was, but then it starts in Saxon times really.
28:40
So it's us- it's a massive broad span of time.
28:43
Yeah, they were, they're called a hammered because they're quite literally struck with a hammer.
28:46
It's basically a blank disc of silver-

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38:50
Mm.

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