Digging For Britain

A secret location in the Cotswolds gives up a once in a life time find of a very precious and fragile artifact At the site of Shaftesbury Abbey Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney joins archaeologist Julian Richards in his hunt for the missing cloister

The remains of a Tudor house in Leicestershire were thought to be the childhood home of Englands forgotten queen Lady Jane Grey In Northern Ireland the graveyard of a Victorian workhouse sheds new light on the Great Famine of 1845

In this episode, we find out how a lobster led archaeologists to the discovery of an 8,000-year-old Neolithic underwater settlement. We also join a team at a secret location in Dorset as they excavate an Iron Age crouched burial.

The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artifacts from World War II What can these finds tell us about the British involvement in the war that we didnt already know