Digging for Britain

  • Premiered: Aug 2010
  • Episodes: 51
  • Followers: 9
  • Running
  • BBC Four
  • Wednesday at 20
  • Documentary

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Season 9
9x1
The Greatest Discoveries Episode 1
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Mar 17, 2020
Professor Alice Roberts re-examines key archaeological sites of prehistoric Britain, from the arrival of the earliest humans to mysterious ceremonies at Stonehenge.
9x2
The Greatest Discoveries Episode 2
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Mar 24, 2020
Professor Alice Roberts re-examines the key archaeological sites of Iron Age Britain, from an incredible chariot burial in Yorkshire to a vast coin hoard on Jersey.
9x3
The Greatest Discoveries: Episode 3
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Mar 31, 2020
Professor Alice Roberts re-examines the key archaeological sites of Roman Britain, from the foundation of Londinium in the south to fierce siege battles in the north.
9x4
The Greatest Discoveries: Episode 4
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Apr 07, 2020
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9x1
Episode 1
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Jan 04, 2022
The astonishing discovery of a mosaic has art historians, archaeologists and Alice very excited as they slowly reveal its full beauty.
9x2
Episode 2
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Jan 05, 2022
The south of England offers rich pickings, including the earliest money made in Britain and a massive haul of Roman treasure that brings to life the fall of the empire in Britain.
9x3
Episode 3
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Jan 06, 2022
The best archaeology from the north of Britain, including Scotland’s oldest railway, one of the best-preserved Norman castles and an extraordinary find from a Neolithic tomb.
9x4
Episode 4
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Jan 11, 2022
Unearthing a Jurassic giant, investigating finds from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and uncovering the hidden heart of Roman Leicester.
9x5
Episode 5
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Jan 12, 2022
A new Roman town and hundreds of finds are discovered. The Cerne Giant finally gets a date, and a World War II air crash mystery is laid to rest.
9x6 Season finale
Episode 6
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Jan 13, 2022
Featuring a Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall, evidence of early writing by the Picts in Scotland and a 3000-year-old Bronze Age coffin buried under a golf course.

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