Digging for Britain

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  E1Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park

  Jan 7, 2026· 59m

  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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  E2Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig

  Jan 14, 2026· 59m

  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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  E3A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship

  Jan 21, 2026· 59m

  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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  E4England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky

  Jan 28, 2026· 58m

  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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  E5Medieval Murder and Roman Pets

  Feb 4, 2026· 59m

  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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  E6A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing WellFinale

  Feb 5, 2026· 58m

  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.

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  E1Saxon Gold and Buried Coins

  Jan 7, 2025· 59m

  The most incredible grave goods ever found on Digging for Britain, a strange Roman sarcophagus filled with plaster and an intriguing medieval coin hoard.

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  E2Dinosaur Highway and Roman Sauna

  Jan 8, 2025· 58m

  A quarryman makes the discovery of a set of very large footprints, and a chance find reveals a spectacular Roman villa with mosaics and a sauna

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  E3Island Treasures

  Jan 9, 2025· 58m

  Exploring Britain’s islands: a 5,000-year-old Neolithic tomb, an international effort to save a WWI warship, and a Neanderthal hunting ground off Jersey’s coast.

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  E4Roman Crime and Ancient DNA

  Jan 14, 2025· 59m

  Gold is found at a bishop’s palace, a Roman crime is uncovered, detectorists unearth a staggering bronze age haul, and ancient DNA solves a medieval mystery

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  E5Chariots and Slaves

  Jan 15, 2025· 58m

  In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.

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  E6Lost Mansions and Impaled PrisonersFinale

  Jan 16, 2025· 58m

  Extraordinary digs from the south - a Romani encampment in the New Forest, a convict’s burial ground, discovery of a civil war mansion and London’s best-preserved Roman cemetery.

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  E1The Roman Emperor’s Bathhouse

  Jan 2, 2024· 54m

  Digs in northern Britain reveal a Roman emperor’s lost bathhouse, the sunken treasures of medieval pilgrims and a formidable fortress perched on top of a Scottish mountain.

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  E2Anglo-Saxon Gold and Rebellious Nuns

  Jan 3, 2024· 58m

  In central England, an RAF airbase with a Roman past, a forgotten medieval nunnery, a gold pendant from a 7th-century grave and a pub with a very long history of hospitality.

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  E3A Norman Panic Room and a Mesolithic Fish Trap

  Jan 4, 2024· 59m

  In the west of Britain, there's a rare medieval cemetery, a disappearing Mesolithic landscape, a mysterious Iron Age burial and the ruins of a Gothic masterpiece.

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  E4A Roman Mystery and Waterloo’s Disappearing Dead

  Jan 9, 2024· 59m

  Roberts reveals the most fascinating archaeological finds this year in the East of England: a Roman dodecahedron, the secrets of Boudicca’s hill fort and Waterloo’s disappearing dead.

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  E53000-Year-Old Shoes and Giant Axeheads

  Jan 10, 2024· 59m

  Archaeology in the south of England unearths Britain’s oldest shoe, the lost shipyard of one of England’s greatest warrior kings and Britain’s top-secret WWII defences.

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  E6Forgotten Fortresses and Lost Villages

  Jan 11, 2024· 58m

  Digs in the West of Britain reveal a forgotten fortress teetering on the edge of a cliff, evidence of the oldest house in Cardiff and a discovery at a Roman mosaic that shocks the experts.

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Professor Alice Roberts explores 2018's most exciting archaeological finds.

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Professor Alice Roberts explores 2017's most exciting archaeological finds.

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Highlighting the best archaeological discoveries from around the country.

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Dr Alice Roberts and Matt Williams highlight the best discoveries from around the country.

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Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up digs and investigations

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Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up digs and investigations

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