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Lucilla Gray

Lucilla Gray

Creative & fashion consultant; co-founder of Roman Found, a media company producing history-focused digital content about metal detecting with 190k+ followers; author (Things We Found in the Ground, published April 2026).

May 31, 2026

22:09
And then we reconnected during lockdown, just when we were both kind of like bizarrely trapped back in Lincoln.
22:15
Yeah, so I came over from New Zealand.
22:19
I was meant to be continuing my fashion career in Europe and then lockdown or COVID happened and I kind of had to re-evaluate what I could do.
22:29
It's kind of stuck in Lincoln.
22:34
But me and Ellie almost accidentally started metal detecting.
23:42
Would you sort of say that's a fair description? Time travel in one place?
23:46
Yeah, I think so.
23:48
But I think... for me when I connect with a find it's sort of you could be holding something that's maybe not seen the light for a millennia and you sort of think like who was the last person that held this before you did I think for me that's kind of like how I sort of think about it I don't think I'm time traveling but I'm like connecting it's like

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