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Professor Alice Roberts tells the story of the iconic Irish artefacts that have helped to shape and create modern Ireland, both North and South. This episode reveals the surprising tales behind treasures such as the Tara Broach, the Broighter Hoard, and the Waterford Charter Roll, revealing new stories behind the artefacts... 51:35 Expired
A team of archaeologists discover clues to Scotland's first kingdoms, metal detectorists unearth a hoard if Viking treasure and a new housing development reveals a graveyard of Iron Age warriors. 51:30 Expired
In this episode, the team unearths a mass grave, divers search the Thames for clues to a 17th century tragedy and a metal dectectorist makes the find of a lifetime. 49:55 Expired
Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present the year's most outstanding archaeology. At the Salisbury Museum, archaeologists take a look at Marden Henge, the communal sweat lodges and feasting remains that illuminate the lost rituals of Stonehenge. The Durotriges are a glimpse into the bizarre animal sa... 50:27 Expired
Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present 2014's most outstanding archaeology from the north of Britain. They visit a 5000 year old stone temple in the heart if the Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, and watch the unearthing of a Roman alter dedicated to Jupiter. 51:54 Expired
In the west of Britain, Professor Alice Roberts and a team of archaeologists are in the Dorset Country Museum to look at the new finds. Sites include Barrowclump, a Bronze Age burial site that holds dozens of Anglo-Saxon warrior graves; Winchester, one of the UK's earliest hospitals, revealing insights into the lives and d... 50:54 Expired
Professor Alice Roberts returns to take a fresh approach to archaeology on screen, getting out into the field to show viewers the unique excitement of unearthing revelatory new artefacts. In this episode, archaeologists are in the Norwich Castle Museum to look at the new finds, including the Pompeii of the Bronze Age, buri... 48:37 Expired
Dr Alice Roberts goes in search of our elusive Stone Age ancestors. Along the way she visits the Channel island of Jersey where she meets a team of archaeologists hoping to shed new light on the much maligned Neanderthals, and embarks on a kayak survey of the coastline looking for undiscovered sites hidden in the cliffs. A... 51:17 Expired
Dr Alice Roberts travels back to the Ages of Bronze and Iron to discover what kind of a place Britain was before the Romans invaded. With no written history, only archaeology can provide the clues. Alice uncovers a world that is complex, sophisticated and pretty strange. 51:49 Expired
Dr Alice Roberts travels back to the Viking Age in Britain and visits excavations that are revealing a different side to these seafaring pirates from Scandinavia. She looks for signs of the earliest Viking settlers in the Outer Hebrides and in Orkney, where Viking dominance outlasted anywhere else in Britain. She visits th...August 2019
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Dr Alice Roberts returns for a second season as she follows an entire year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country. This episode concentrates on Roman Britannia, where finds include the thickening mystery of 97 baby skeletons found by the Thames, a newly discovere... 51:23 Expired
On the muddy banks of the Thames, discover the rich history of a forgotten royal palace, which was home to the Tudor kings and queens, and learn about a mysterious shipwreck. A team is uncovering the brutal realities of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, and reveal the secrets of the rubbish dump at the bottom of... 49:00 Expired
They divided the land and heralded the arrival of the Dark Ages. From key sites that are throwing light on this most mysterious of periods, to the skeletons found at Bamburgh, Northumbria, and a remarkable community project in a shopping centre in Sittingbourne, experts discover if the Anglo-Saxons were really just barbari... 49:53 Expired
In Norfolk, newly unearthed flint tools push the earliest human occupation back by 200,000 years, to around one million years ago. In Orkney an early farm yields glimpses of our ancestors? earliest religious beliefs and customs - cattle skulls buried within building walls, and tiny household goddesses. In Devon, we find on... 49:19 Expired
This pioneering series unearths the amazing stories and thrilling treasures hidden just below Britain's surface. Everywhere you stand on this small but significant island, there are worlds beneath your feet, and every year hundreds of excavations bring more of them to light. Ambitious, bold and multi-layered, Digging for B...