Digging For Britain

Professor Alice Roberts highlights the year's top northern UK digs, filmed by teams on site. Discoveries include Iron Age homes at Black Loch of Myrton, an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, a lost WWII Spitfire, the Westness Brooch, Orkney's endangered Neolithic tomb and Pictish stone, Salford's vast Georgian jail, and conservation work at Vindolanda revealing what happens after excavation.

Professor Alice Roberts explores standout West Britain digs filmed on site. A vast maritime investigation reveals HMS Invincible's story; at Silchester a Roman bathhouse exposes daily life; a buried Hampshire camp shows German troops' 18th-century role, while Raksha Dave uncovers lives from a tragic 19th-century paupers' graveyard.

Professor Alice Roberts explores East Britain digs filmed on site. In Suffolk, a lost Stone Age monument reveals remarkable engineering; in France, a WWI battlefield revisits an early tank disaster. Back in Suffolk, puzzling Roman burials and a Civil War coin hoard reshape everyday history, while Raksha Dave investigates a vanished medieval village in Brighton.

Alice Roberts follows the excavation of an Iron Age grave in East Yorkshire, where a warrior was buried with a chariot harnessed to two standing ponies. Elsewhere, digs in North Wales challenge hillfort warfare myths, while underwater teams uncover roundhouses beneath Loch Tay. Lab analysis of artefacts and over 100 skeletons reshapes how Iron Age Britons lived, died and were remembered.