Will you search through the loamy earth for me?
A real-life story straight out of Detectorists: a gold coin discovered in a field just sold for £648,000 at auction, changing the life of the family involved.
“Describing the moment he found the treasure, Leigh-Mallory said: ‘My trowel exposed the coin. The sun was shining over my shoulder and it glistened. My heart jumped; I thought: ‘This is gold.’ As I picked it up, the sun glinted on the king and my heart seemed to stop.’”
Any excuse to remind people just how wonderful Mackenzie Crook’s three-series (or will that be four?) masterpiece really is.
I’m writing this in the Suffolk countryside, not far from the locations where the show was filmed (I’ll be in the DMDC’s local on Friday), so perhaps I’m biased. But this unassuming, half-hour show about love has a way of quietly entering people’s hearts and staying there. Even hard-bitten critics think it’s one of the best TV series of the century.
Another viewing? Go on then.