Digging for Britain

Season 8

2019 · 4 episodes · 4h 0m in all

Episodes

1. 

   1. West

   20 Nov 2019 · 60 min

   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. 

   2. North

   27 Nov 2019 · 60 min

   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. 

   3. South

   4 Dec 2019 · 60 min

   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.

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   4. WWII Special

   11 Dec 2019 · 60 min

   The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefacts from World War II.