Digging for Britain – Season 8

2019

4 Episodes

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.

20 Nov 201960m

S08E02

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.

27 Nov 201960m

S08E03

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.

04 Dec 201960m

S08E04

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.

11 Dec 201960m