Digging for Britain

  • Premiered: Aug 2010
  • Episodes: 51
  • Followers: 10
  • Running
  • BBC Four
  • Wednesday at 20
  • Documentary

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Season 11
11x1
The Roman Emperor’s Bathhouse
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 02, 2024
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.
11x2
Anglo-Saxon Gold and Rebellious Nuns
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 03, 2024
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.
11x3
A Norman Panic Room and a Mesolithic Fish Trap
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 04, 2024
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.
11x4
A Roman Mystery and Waterloo’s Disappearing Dead
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 09, 2024
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.
11x5
3000-Year-Old Shoes and Giant Axeheads
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 10, 2024
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.
11x6 Season finale
Forgotten Fortresses and Lost Villages
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 11, 2024
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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