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Digging for Britain

Season 11 2024
TV-14

  • 2024-01-02T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 5h 47m (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

2024-01-02T20:00:00Z

11x01 The Roman Emperor’s Bathhouse

Season Premiere

11x01 The Roman Emperor’s Bathhouse

  • 2024-01-02T20:00:00Z54m

Digs in northern Britain reveal a Roman emperor’s lost bathhouse, the sunken treasures of medieval pilgrims and a formidable fortress perched on top of a Scottish mountain.

In central England, an RAF airbase with a Roman past, a forgotten medieval nunnery, a gold pendant from a 7th-century grave and a pub with a very long history of hospitality.

In the west of Britain, there's a rare medieval cemetery, a disappearing Mesolithic landscape, a mysterious Iron Age burial and the ruins of a Gothic masterpiece.

Roberts reveals the most fascinating archaeological finds this year in the East of England: a Roman dodecahedron, the secrets of Boudicca’s hill fort and Waterloo’s disappearing dead.

Archaeology in the south of England unearths Britain’s oldest shoe, the lost shipyard of one of England’s greatest warrior kings and Britain’s top-secret WWII defences.

Digs in the West of Britain reveal a forgotten fortress teetering on the edge of a cliff, evidence of the oldest house in Cardiff and a discovery at a Roman mosaic that shocks the experts.

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