comming June 2025

Softcover, 160x220mm, 260 pages, Paper: Serixo 100 g/m² & 300 g/m², printed by Printon, Typefaces: Doves Type by Robert Green, Edward Prince & Percy Tiffin, Typespec and Starter by Tobias Hönow,  ISBN: 978-90-834231-3-5

HumDrumPress is a collaboration-based publisher. Roles and responsibilities are therefore shared by all parties, within their capacities. The following persons contributed in a multitude of ways to making this publication possible: Aimee Ballinger, Amy Gowen, Clare Hyatt McLeod, Dave Clarke, Edward C Stewart, Eva Jack, Gavin McGregor, Hannah Maria Chisholm, Jane Manley, Kate Clayton, Lally MacBeth, Lara Chapman, Louis Andrews, Ruth Impey, Wibke Bramesfeld, Zach Ozma

This book has been made possible by Creative Scotland.

Eva Jack

Fragment Found


• Archiving • History • Archaeology • Pottery • Walking

Through rituals of discovery – such as mudlarking, beachcombing, dump digging and fieldwalking – discarded, broken and forgotten pieces of history find new value and meaning. Fragment Found brings together 157 finders and 14 writers to delve into the ways in which pottery fragments connect us to the past, the land and each other. From these collectively-sourced sherds have grown works of fiction, history and reflection; factual and fanciful. The stories they tell meander in many directions, taking us on journeys; be that to a detritus-filled creek in Pennsylvania or to a charity shop in Devon. Along the way, we are kept company by people real and imagined – from family members to a Greek prophetess, as well as the many people whose hands these found artefacts have passed through before our own.


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