Digging for Britain

  • Premiered: Aug 2010
  • Episodes: 57
  • Followers: 10
  • Running
  • BBC Four
  • Tuesday at 20
  • Documentary

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Season 12
12x1
Saxon Gold and Buried Coins
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 07, 2025
The most incredible grave goods ever found on Digging for Britain, a strange Roman sarcophagus filled with plaster and an intriguing medieval coin hoard.
12x2
Dinosaur Highway and Roman Sauna
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 08, 2025
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.
12x3
Island Treasures
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 09, 2025
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.
12x4
Roman Crime and Ancient DNA
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 14, 2025
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.
12x5
Chariots and Slaves
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 15, 2025
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.
12x6 Season finale
Lost Mansions and Impaled Prisoners
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 16, 2025
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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