Digging for Britain

Name: Digging for Britain
Released: 2010-08-19
Rating: 6

2010 · 1h 0m · TMDB 6.0/10 (4 votes)

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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About Digging for Britain

Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

Status: Returning Series
TMDB rating: 6.0/10 from 4 votes
Seasons: 13
Episodes: 59

Seasons and episodes

The latest season with aired episodes is shown first. Specials are kept separate.

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Series 13

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S13 E1Jan 7, 202659 min

Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park

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.

S13 E2Jan 14, 202659 min

Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig

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.

S13 E3Jan 21, 202659 min

A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship

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

S13 E4Jan 28, 202658 min

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

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.

S13 E5Feb 4, 202659 min

Medieval Murder and Roman Pets

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.

S13 E6Feb 5, 202658 min

A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing Well

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.