Digging for Britain

Series 13

2026 · 6 episodes · 5h 52m in all

Episodes

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   1. Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park

   7 Jan 2026 · 59 min

   Featuring visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, one of the largest Roman cemeteries ever found in Britain, Bradford’s first Muslim burial, more finds in Carlisle from a Roman bathhouse, and from the 1970s, Scotland’s first skatepark.

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   2. Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig

   14 Jan 2026 · 59 min

   Featuring two incredibly rare finds from an Iron Age hoard, a look inside the UK’s largest and most complex dig in a generation, an Iron Age site perched on the very edge of the White Cliffs of Dover, and the earliest example of an artist’s signature from Roman Britain.

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   3. A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship

   21 Jan 2026 · 59 min

   Rare Anglo-Saxon swords, a mysterious and macabre Roman bone box and a cross-continental investigation into Admiral Nelson’s favourite ship.

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   4. England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky

   28 Jan 2026 · 58 min

   The lost estate of Harold Godwinson, last Anglo-Saxon king of England, a completely intact 4,000-year-old cremation vessel and an unprecedented Roman whetstone factory.

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   5. Medieval Murder and Roman Pets

   4 Feb 2026 · 59 min

   Featuring a vast first-century Roman compound, the warhorses that changed the course of history, a medieval murder mystery, the thriving farmstead belonging to Isaac Newton's mother, thousands of animal bones from a Roman farm, and a 300-million-year-old forest that built the modern world.

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   6. A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing Well

   5 Feb 2026 · 58 min

   Tantalising clues to the ancient origin story of St Michael’s Mount, rare Roman cavalry swords with hidden secrets and a wishing well of coins at a promontory fort in Pembrokeshire.