
Digging for Britain
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.
Digging for Britain
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.
Digging for Britain
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

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Episode 1: Digging for Ireland
Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present the highlights from this year's arch...

Episode 2: The Greatest Discoveries: Episode 1
Professor Alice Roberts re-examines key archaeological sites of prehistoric Britain, from the arriva...

Episode 3: The Greatest Discoveries: Episode 2
Professor Alice Roberts re-examines the key archaeological sites of Iron Age Britain, from an incred...

Episode 4: The Greatest Discoveries: Episode 3
Professor Alice Roberts re-examines the key archaeological sites of Roman Britain, from the foundati...
Episode 5: The Greatest Discoveries: Episode 4
Professor Alice Roberts re-examines the key archaeological sites of Anglo-Saxon Britain and finds th...
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up digs and investigations

Episode 1: The Romans
Roman finds include the mystery of 97 babies murdered by the Thames, a fabulous Roman coin hoard fou...

Episode 2: Prehistory
Her journey takes her from Orkney to Devon by land, sea and air. In Norfolk, flint tools unearthed...

Episode 3: Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons - they divided our land and heralded the arrival of the Dark Ages. But were they re...

Episode 4: The Tudors
Alice Roberts finds out about discoveries that shed new light on the Tudor Age, visiting excavations...
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up digs and investigations

Episode 1: Britannia
Looks at Roman Britannia, where finds include the thickening mystery of 97 baby skeletons.

Episode 2: Invaders
Includes a visit to Orkney where Viking dominance outlasted anywhere else in Britain.

Episode 3: Age of Bronze and Iron
Dr Alice Roberts discovers what kind of a place Britain was before the Romans invaded.

Episode 4: Ice and Stone
Dr Alice Roberts goes in search of our elusive Stone Age ancestors.
Dr Alice Roberts and Matt Williams highlight the best discoveries from around the country.

Episode 1: East
Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present 2014's most outstanding archaeology....

Episode 2: West
Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present 2014's most outstanding archaeology....

Episode 3: North
Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present 2014's most outstanding archaeology...
Series highlighting the best archaeological discoveries from around the country.

Episode 1: West
This episode heads to the west of Britain, while archaeologists join us back in the Salisbury Museum...

Episode 2: East
Professor Alice Roberts explores the year's most exciting archaeological finds in the east of Britai...

Episode 3: North
Professor Alice Roberts explores the year's most exciting archaeological finds in the north of Brita...
Highlighting the best archaeological discoveries from around the country.

Episode 1: West
Finds include training trenches on Salisbury Plain and luxury foreign goods at Tintagel.

Episode 2: North
Finds include evidence of the first Roman siege in Britain and Scottish man-made islands.

Episode 3: East
Finds include the theatre where Shakespeare premiered Romeo and Juliet and Henry V.
Professor Alice Roberts explores 2017's most exciting archaeological finds.

Episode 1: West
We discover the camp from which Vikings invaded Britain, and find groundbreaking new evidence that t...

Episode 2: East
We unearth the biggest collection of Roman writing tablets in Britain, giving insight into what Roma...

Episode 3: North
Alice discovers the well-preserved writing tablets, swords and domestic items left by Romans at Vind...

Episode 4: The Horsemen of Hadrian's Wall
In this special, Professor Alice Roberts reveals the forgotten story of the Roman Army's secret weap...
Professor Alice Roberts explores 2018's most exciting archaeological finds.

Episode 1: North
Professor Alice Roberts celebrates the biggest and best archaeological discoveries of 2018 from the...

Episode 2: West
Professor Alice Robert explores this year’s most exciting archaeological finds from the west of Brit...

Episode 3: East
Professor Alice Roberts explores this year’s most exciting archaeological finds from the East of Bri...

Episode 4: Iron Age Revealed
Alice Roberts follows the excavation of Iron Age Britain’s most spectacular grave. A team of archaeo...

Episode 1: West
Archaeological discoveries with Professor Alice Roberts. In the Cotswolds, a secret location, which...

Episode 2: North
More than is expected is found in the remains of a house thought to be the childhood home of Lady Ja...

Episode 3: South
How a lobster led archaeologists to the discovery of an 8000-year-old neolithic settlement. And Naoi...

Episode 4: WWII Special
The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefac...

Episode 1: East
The astonishing discovery of a mosaic has art historians, archaeologists and Alice very excited as t...

Episode 2: South
The south of England offers rich pickings, including the earliest money made in Britain and a massiv...

Episode 3: North
The best archaeology from the north of Britain, including Scotland’s oldest railway, one of the best...

Episode 4: Midlands
Unearthing a Jurassic giant, investigating finds from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and uncovering the hid...

Episode 5: West
A new Roman town and hundreds of finds are discovered. The Cerne Giant finally gets a date, and a Wo...

Episode 6: North
Featuring a Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall, evidence of early writing by the Picts in Scotland and a 3...
Episode 1: Roman Towns and Tudor Shipwrecks
Digs in southern England reveal a previously unknown Roman town, a Tudor ship buried beneath a quarr...
Episode 2: Arthur's Stone and a Georgian Mine
In the west of the UK, a spectacular monument older than Stonehenge, a 200-year-old mine trapped in...
Episode 3: Headless Romans and Anglo Saxon Gold
A gatehouse riddled with Civil War bullets, a unique Iron Age shield made from bark and Roman burial...
Episode 4: Mystery Shipwreck and a Roman Army Camp
Alice Roberts reveals a Dutch ship sunk by the English, a Cornish Roman fort and a 5000-year-old Neo...
Episode 5: Roman Mosaics and Ancient Weapons
Travelling east, Alice discovers a Roman barn conversion, unearths a Tudor fort and finds intricatel...
Episode 6: Ice Age Camp and a Saint with Syphilis
In Scotland and the north of England, Alice investigates an Ice Age camp, the mystery of a medieval...

Episode 1: The Roman Emperor’s Bathhouse
Digs in northern Britain reveal a Roman emperor’s lost bathhouse, the sunken treasures of medieval p...

Episode 2: Anglo-Saxon Gold and Rebellious Nuns
In central England, an RAF airbase with a Roman past, a forgotten medieval nunnery, a gold pendant f...

Episode 3: A Norman Panic Room and a Mesolithic Fish Trap
In the west of Britain, there's a rare medieval cemetery, a disappearing Mesolithic landscape, a mys...

Episode 4: A Roman Mystery and Waterloo’s Disappearing Dead
Roberts reveals the most fascinating archaeological finds this year in the East of England: a Roman...

Episode 5: 3000-Year-Old Shoes and Giant Axeheads
Archaeology in the south of England unearths Britain’s oldest shoe, the lost shipyard of one of Engl...

Episode 6: Forgotten Fortresses and Lost Villages
Digs in the West of Britain reveal a forgotten fortress teetering on the edge of a cliff, evidence o...

Episode 1: Saxon Gold and Buried Coins
The most incredible grave goods ever found on Digging for Britain, a strange Roman sarcophagus fille...

Episode 2: Dinosaur Highway and Roman Sauna
A quarryman makes the discovery of a set of very large footprints, and a chance find reveals a spect...

Episode 3: Island Treasures
Exploring Britain’s islands: a 5,000-year-old Neolithic tomb, an international effort to save a WWI...

Episode 4: Roman Crime and Ancient DNA
Gold is found at a bishop’s palace, a Roman crime is uncovered, detectorists unearth a staggering br...

Episode 5: Chariots and Slaves
In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Ir...

Episode 6: Lost Mansions and Impaled Prisoners
Extraordinary digs from the south - a Romani encampment in the New Forest, a convict’s burial ground...
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