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Digging for Britain

Season 8 · 4 episodes · Nov 20, 2019

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    Episode 1

    West

    Nov 20, 2019

    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.

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    Episode 2

    North

    Nov 27, 2019

    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.

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    Episode 3

    South

    Dec 4, 2019

    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.

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    Episode 4

    WWII Special

    Dec 11, 2019

    The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefacts from World War II.