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Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets

Series 2

2020 · 5 episodes

  1. 1. Episode 1

    2020-09-26 · 45m

    The team visit a long-forgotten cemetery in Ipswich, where 1400 bodies reveal signs of hard labour, disease, murder, and possibly the country's first post-mortem.

  2. 2. Episode 2

    2020-10-03 · 45m

    Roadworks on the A9 in Scotland uncover the remains of a young woman who lived and died in the early Bronze Age. Was she one of the so-called Beaker People?

  3. 3. Episode 3

    2020-10-10 · 45m

    Tucked away in a Runcorn industrial park is Europe's most excavated monastic site. It reveals a story of medieval knights, brutal murder and ancient disease.

  4. 4. Episode 4

    2020-10-17 · 45m

    A Wiltshire building site unearths eight Roman cemeteries and the remains of a man beheaded after burial. Who did this, and why? Tori and the team investigate.

  5. 5. Episode 5

    2020-10-24 · 45m

    Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together the story behind the discovery of 13 bodies with the skulls cut open in a 19th-century Bristol graveyard. The investigation uncovers a link to a local hospital, a celebrated surgeon, and the crime of bodysnatching.

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