Digging For Britain

Professor Alice Roberts explores major discoveries from western Britain: a high-status Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the Cotswolds, the search for the lost cloister at Shaftesbury Abbey, Neanderthal caves in Wales, Beaker-period burials on Salisbury Plain, long-running digs at Berkeley Castle, and a dramatic cliff-side rescue of medieval human remains on the Welsh coast.

In the North, the remains of a Tudor house in Leicestershire were thought to be the childhood home of England's forgotten Queen, Lady Jane Grey. But when archaeologists excavate, they find more than they bargained for.

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.

In this special, the team hunts archaeology from WWII, raising a rare Fairey Barracuda from the waters of the Solent, where experts piece together the lost dive-bomber. At Lake Windermere, digs reveal Holocaust survivor children rebuilding their lives. In Wiltshire, archaeologists trace Easy Company before D-Day, while coastal dives uncover evidence of secret wartime rehearsals.