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Digging for Britain
Overview
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.
Status
Returning Series
Network
BBC Two
Seasons & Episodes
Season 8
Episodes
West
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.
North
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.
South
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.
WWII Special
The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefacts from World War II.
Top Cast
Alice Roberts
Self - Presenter
Victoria Herridge
Self - Presenter
