Digging for Britain

Season 3

TV-14
Dr Alice Roberts and Matt Williams highlight the best discoveries from around the country.

Where to Watch Season 3

3 Episodes

  • East
    E1
    EastThe team gather at Norwich Castle Museum to look at some of the finds from a range of exciting excavations across the East of England. Including Colchester, Silchester and the remarkable Must Farm site in Cambridgeshire.
  • West
    E2
    WestA huge Roman settlement in an area the Romans were not thought to have conquered, a leper hospital, a Bronze Age hoard and the Durotrigues Big Dig are discussed as the team meet at Dorset County Museum.
  • North
    E3
    NorthProfessor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present 2014's most outstanding archaeology from the north of Britain. Sitting in the heart of the Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, the Ness of Brodgar houses a 5,000-year-old temple at the heart of a sacred landscape, built out of stone over hundreds of years. We catch the unearthing of a Roman altar dedicated to Jupiter that was originally carved in the 2nd century, when Maryport was part of the coastal defences linked to Hadrian's Wall. 11,000 years ago Flixton in Yorkshire was an island used by our very earliest ancestors, and it has preserved vital clues about their world and the wild horses they hunted and ate. In Ardnamurchan, a 5,000-year-old cemetery - housing burials from the Bronze and Iron Ages... and an intact Viking boat burial. A Tudor-era aristocrat's feasting hall is revealed... and how one night the revelry came to a very abrupt end. One of the richest hoards of Pictish treasure ever found reveals the metalworking secrets of the mysterious tribes who ruled Dark Ages Scotland.

Cast of Season 3

  • Alice RobertsSelf - Presenter

 

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