Digging for Britain (2010)
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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Episode 1 - East
Release Date: 2022-01-04The astonishing discovery of a mosaic has art historians, archaeologists and Alice very excited as they slowly reveal its full beauty.
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Episode 2 - South
Release Date: 2022-01-05The south of England offers rich pickings, including the earliest money made in Britain and a massive haul of Roman treasure that brings to life the fall of the empire in Britain.
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Episode 3 - North
Release Date: 2022-01-06The best archaeology from the north of Britain, including Scotland’s oldest railway, one of the best-preserved Norman castles and an extraordinary find from a Neolithic tomb.
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Episode 4 - Midlands
Release Date: 2022-01-11Unearthing a Jurassic giant, investigating finds from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and uncovering the hidden heart of Roman Leicester.
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Episode 5 - West
Release Date: 2022-01-12A new Roman town and hundreds of finds are discovered. The Cerne Giant finally gets a date, and a World War II air crash mystery is laid to rest.
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Episode 6 - North
Release Date: 2022-01-13Featuring a Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall, evidence of early writing by the Picts in Scotland and a 3000-year-old Bronze Age coffin buried under a golf course.