Digging for Britain

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

Seasons:

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Season 10
10x1
Roman Towns and Tudor Shipwrecks
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 01, 2023
Digs in southern England reveal a previously unknown Roman town, a Tudor ship buried beneath a quarry and evidence of Henry VIII's financial forgery under the Tower of London.
10x2
Arthur's Stone and a Georgian Mine
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 08, 2023
In the west of the UK, a spectacular monument older than Stonehenge, a 200-year-old mine trapped in time and a lost medieval friary.
10x3
Headless Romans and Anglo Saxon Gold
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 15, 2023
A gatehouse riddled with Civil War bullets, a unique Iron Age shield made from bark and Roman burials with pots where the heads should be.
10x4
Mystery Shipwreck and a Roman Army Camp
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 2023
Alice Roberts reveals a Dutch ship sunk by the English, a Cornish Roman fort and a 5000-year-old Neolithic monument.
10x5
Roman Mosaics and Ancient Weapons
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 29, 2023
Travelling east, Alice discovers a Roman barn conversion, unearths a Tudor fort and finds intricately carved 10,000-year-old weapons.
10x6 Season finale
Ice Age Camp and a Saint with Syphilis
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 05, 2023
In Scotland and the north of England, Alice investigates an Ice Age camp, the mystery of a medieval skeleton and the earliest evidence of salt making in Britain.

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