Digging for Britain

  • Premiered: Aug 2010
  • Episodes: 63
  • Followers: 11
  • Running
  • BBC Four
  • Wednesday at 21
  • Documentary

Seasons:

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Season 13
13x1
Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 07, 2026
Visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, Bradford’s first Muslim burial and, from the 1970s, Scotland’s first skatepark.
13x2
Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 14, 2026
Two incredibly rare finds from an Iron Age hoard, a look inside the UK’s largest and most complex dig in a generation, and the earliest example of an artist’s signature from Roman Britain.
13x3
A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 21, 2026
Rare Anglo-Saxon swords, a mysterious and macabre Roman bone box and a cross-continental investigation into Admiral Nelson’s favourite ship.
13x4
England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 28, 2026
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.
13x5
Medieval Murder and Roman Pets
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 04, 2026
The warhorses that changed the course of history, a medieval murder mystery and a 300-million-year-old forest that built the modern world.
13x6 Season finale
A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing Well
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 11, 2026
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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