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Digging for Britain

Series 12 · 6 episodes · Jan 7, 2025

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    Episode 1

    Saxon Gold and Buried Coins

    Jan 7, 2025

    The most incredible grave goods ever found on Digging for Britain, a strange Roman sarcophagus filled with plaster and an intriguing medieval coin hoard.

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    Episode 2

    Dinosaur Highway and Roman Sauna

    Jan 8, 2025

    A quarryman makes the discovery of a set of very large footprints, and a chance find reveals a spectacular Roman villa with mosaics and a sauna

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    Episode 3

    Island Treasures

    Jan 9, 2025

    Exploring Britain’s islands: a 5,000-year-old Neolithic tomb, an international effort to save a WWI warship, and a Neanderthal hunting ground off Jersey’s coast.

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    Episode 4

    Roman Crime and Ancient DNA

    Jan 14, 2025

    Gold is found at a bishop’s palace, a Roman crime is uncovered, detectorists unearth a staggering bronze age haul, and ancient DNA solves a medieval mystery

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    Episode 5

    Chariots and Slaves

    Jan 15, 2025

    In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.

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    Episode 6

    Lost Mansions and Impaled Prisoners

    Jan 16, 2025

    Extraordinary digs from the south - a Romani encampment in the New Forest, a convict’s burial ground, discovery of a civil war mansion and London’s best-preserved Roman cemetery.