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Digging for Britain

Digging for Britain (2010)

August. 19,2010

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TV-14

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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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Digging for Britain

2010 / TV-14

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

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 13 : 2026

6 Episode

Episode 1 - Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park

January. 07,2026

Featuring visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, one of the largest Roman cemeteries ever found in Britain, Bradford’s first Muslim burial, more finds in Carlisle from a Roman bathhouse, and from the 1970s, Scotland’s first skatepark.

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Episode 2 - Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig

January. 14,2026

Featuring two incredibly rare finds from an Iron Age hoard, a look inside the UK’s largest and most complex dig in a generation, an Iron Age site perched on the very edge of the White Cliffs of Dover, and the earliest example of an artist’s signature from Roman Britain.

Episode 3 - A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship

January. 21,2026

Rare Anglo-Saxon swords, a mysterious and macabre Roman bone box and a cross-continental investigation into Admiral Nelson’s favourite ship.

Episode 4 - England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky

January. 28,2026

The lost estate of Harold Godwinson, last Anglo-Saxon king of England, a completely intact 4,000-year-old cremation vessel and an unprecedented Roman whetstone factory.

Episode 5 - Medieval Murder and Roman Pets

February. 04,2026

Featuring a vast first-century Roman compound, the warhorses that changed the course of history, a medieval murder mystery, the thriving farmstead belonging to Isaac Newton's mother, thousands of animal bones from a Roman farm, and a 300-million-year-old forest that built the modern world.

Episode 6 - A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing Well

February. 05,2026

Tantalising clues to the ancient origin story of St Michael’s Mount, rare Roman cavalry swords with hidden secrets and a wishing well of coins at a promontory fort in Pembrokeshire.

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