Once upon a time, the wealthy who could afford it raised burial mounds called barrows all over the English countryside, waiting to be discovered—and raided—by excavators that call themselves barrow diggers. Thomasina Bateman, daughter of a renowned barrow digger, is raised just like her father: with a trowel in one hand and moist dirt in the other. She is in the process of writing a book on the various famous barrows of the English countryside. When she receives a letter from a mister Sho...
