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Digging for Britain - Season 1

Series: Digging For Britain
4.6
(337)
Episodes
4
Rating
TV14
Year
2020
Language
English

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This season of Digging For Britain follows Alice Roberts as she travels throughout Britain and explores the mysteries uncovered by archaeologists around the country.

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1 to 3 of 4

1. Episode 1

50m

This first episode follows Dr. Alice Roberts and her team as they compare results from digs and investigations all over Britain. The results are astonishing-and sometimes disturbing. On this dig, her team uncovers the bodies of ninety-seven babies murdered by the Thames, a fabulous Roman coin hoard found in Somerset, and a man buried on a layer of dead animals.

2. Episode 2

50m

Dr. Alice Roberts continues her journey through archaeology with amazing finds from prehistory. Her journey takes her from Orkney to Devon, by land, sea, and air.

In Norfolk, flint tools unearthed this year push the earliest human occupation back by 200,000 years, to around a million years ago. While in Orkney, an early farm yields glimpses of our ancestors' earliest religious beliefs and customs-cattle skulls buried within building walls and tiny household goddesses.

3. Episode 3

49m

The Anglo-Saxons-they divided our land and heralded the arrival of the Dark Ages. But were they really just barbarians? Dr. Alice Roberts continues her journey through a year of archaeology, visiting the key sites that are throwing light on this most mysterious of periods. She visits the royal seat of power at Bamburgh, Northumbria and sees how the skeletons tell tales of violent death, but also of tenderness. There's a remarkable community project in a shopping center in Sittingbourne where people are curating the grave goods of their own ancestors. And there are treasures that make her wonder just how dark the Dark Ages really were.

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