Digging for Britain Season 8
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.
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Digging for Britain
2010 / TV-14Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.
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Digging for Britain Season 8 Full Episode Guide
The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefacts from World War II.
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.
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.
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.