Digging for Britain

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8x1
West
Episode overview
Archaeological discoveries with Professor Alice Roberts. In the Cotswolds, a secret location, which appears to be a high-status Anglo Saxon cemetery, gives up a very precious and fragile artefact.
8x2
North
Episode overview
More than is expected is found in the remains of a house thought to be the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey. Plus the graveyard of a Victorian workhouse sheds new light on the Great Famine of 1845.
8x3
South
Episode overview
How a lobster led archaeologists to the discovery of an 8000-year-old neolithic settlement. And Naoise Mac Sweeney visits a construction site as it gives up the secrets of its Elizabethan past.
8x4
WWII Special
Episode overview
The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefacts from World War II.

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