Digging for Britain
Season 8
2019 · 4 episodes
1. West
2019-11-20 · 60m
Archaeological discoveries with Professor Alice Roberts. In the Cotswolds, a secret location, which appears to be a high-status Anglo Saxon cemetery, gives up a very precious and fragile artefact.
2. North
2019-11-27 · 60m
More than is expected is found in the remains of a house thought to be the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey. Plus the graveyard of a Victorian workhouse sheds new light on the Great Famine of 1845.
3. South
2019-12-04 · 60m
How a lobster led archaeologists to the discovery of an 8000-year-old neolithic settlement. And Naoise Mac Sweeney visits a construction site as it gives up the secrets of its Elizabethan past.
4. WWII Special
2019-12-11 · 60m
The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefacts from World War II.
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