Bone Detectives
Season 12020TV-14
There are stories hidden in bones-tales of battles, disease, trades, and tragedies from long ago that, with modern scientific analysis, begin to reveal their mysteries.
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Episodes (8)
- 1. The Isle of Thanet, KentJanuary 10, 202047minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglish
On the Isle of Thanet in Kent, the body of a Bronze Age woman found in a deep pit has been manipulated into a position where she is pointing at something. But at what? - 2. Stoke Quay, IpswitchJanuary 17, 202046minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglish
More than 1,400 bodies lay in a long-forgotten cemetery in Ipswich. Tori Herridge sees firsthand evidence on their bones of hard manual labor, disease, and murder. - 3. Weyhill, HampshireJanuary 24, 202045minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglishThe jumbled remains of more than 100 Anglo-Saxon men were denied Christian burial and thrown carelessly into graves. Who were they, and why were they buried this way?
- 4. Victoria Gate, LeedsSeptember 25, 202046minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglishBeneath a shopping arcade in Leeds, archaeologists discovered the remains of young people that reveal what life was like for the children of the Industrial Revolution.
- 5. BristolOctober 2, 202045minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglishIn a 19th-century Bristol graveyard, the bodies of 13 people whose skulls had been cut open reveal a link to a Bristol hospital, a celebrated surgeon, and body-snatching.
- 6. Amesbury, WiltshireOctober 9, 202045minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglishAmong eight Roman cemeteries near Amesbury, one grave has been disturbed, that of a middle-aged man who was stabbed and beheaded after his burial. Who did this, and why?
- 7. Beak, Caithness, ScotlandOctober 16, 202046minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglishA woman’s grave from the Early Bronze Age provides clues to who she might have been. Does she belong to the Beaker People, who migrated to Britain over 4,000 years ago?
- 8. Norton Priory, CheshireOctober 23, 202046minTV-14SubtitlesEnglish [CC]Audio languagesEnglishThe bones of people buried at a monastic site reveal a story of medieval knights, brutal murder, and generations of people afflicted by an ancient disease.
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