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Digging for Britain

Professor Alice Roberts presents the very best in British archaeology straight from the trenches, so you witness each exciting discovery as it happens. The teams then bring their best finds-from skeletons to treasure-back to the Digging for Britain lab, to examine them with Alice and reveal how they are changing the story of Britain. Photo © 360 Production Limited 2016.
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  1. S5 E1 - Episode 1: WWI and King Arthur
    December 5, 2016
    59min
    TV-14
    In the west of Britain, finds include the lost WWI training trenches on Salisbury Plain and Britain’s first “double henge” - discovered just down the road from Stonehenge - where the evidence suggests long-ago ancestors feasted and made sacred offerings as part of a visit to the ritualistic Stonehenge landscape.
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  2. S5 E2 - Episode 2: Stone Age Technology
    December 12, 2016
    60min
    TV-14
    The north of Britain offers evidence for the first Roman siege on the island, including the biggest cache of Roman bullets discovered anywhere, as well as Britain’s most famous monastery, Lindisfarne, rediscovered for the first time since it was violently sacked by the Vikings 1,000 years ago.
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  3. S5 E3 - Episode 3: War of the Roses
    December 19, 2016
    59min
    TV-14
    In the east of Britain, archaeologists discover the theatre where Shakespeare premiered “Romeo and Juliet” and “Henry V,” complete with sound-effect props and evidence that Shakespeare’s original audience was much rowdier than you might expect.
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Starring
Alice Roberts
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Acorn TV
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