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Digging for Britain

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Digging for Britain is a education/science/factual topics series airing on UK television.

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Digging for Britain

Alice Roberts and Matt Williams explore finds from archaeological digs across the north of Britain, and begin at the Ness of Brodgar in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, where they view a 5,000-year-old temple. The presenters witness the unearthing of a Roman altar in Maryport, Cumbria, examine discoveries from Flixton in North Yorkshire that are around 11,000 years old, and travel to a cemetery in Ardnamurchan in the Highlands. Plus, a Tudor-era feasting hall, and a hoard of Pictish treasures

Upcoming Air Times

📅 Tomorrow

02:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS3E3

Items from archaeological digs from the north of Britain, including examples from the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, Cumbria and the Highlands

14:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS4E1

Alice Roberts and Matt Williams visit archaeological digs across the country, beginning with a look at the work being carried out in the west of Britain

📅 Saturday 27 December

02:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS4E1

Alice Roberts and Matt Williams visit archaeological digs across the country, beginning with a look at the work being carried out in the west of Britain

11:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS3E2

Alice Roberts and Matt Williams visit the Dorset Country Museum, where they explore finds from archaeological digs across the west of Britain

12:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS2E4

Alice Roberts learns more about mankind's Stone Age ancestors, and travels to Jersey to meet a team hoping to shed new light on the Neanderthals

📅 Sunday 28 December

11:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS3E3

Items from archaeological digs from the north of Britain, including examples from the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site, Cumbria and the Highlands

12:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS4E1

Alice Roberts and Matt Williams visit archaeological digs across the country, beginning with a look at the work being carried out in the west of Britain

📅 Monday 29 December

14:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS4E2

Archaeological finds across the east of Britain including divers searching the Thames for clues to a 17th-century tragedy and a metal detectorist making the discovery of a lifetime

📅 Tuesday 30 December

02:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS4E2

Archaeological finds across the east of Britain including divers searching the Thames for clues to a 17th-century tragedy and a metal detectorist making the discovery of a lifetime

14:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS4E3

Archaeological finds across the North of Britain, including clues to Scotland's first kingdoms and a hoard of Viking treasure unearthed by metal detectorists

📅 Wednesday 31 December

02:2055 mins
Digging for BritainS4E3

Archaeological finds across the North of Britain, including clues to Scotland's first kingdoms and a hoard of Viking treasure unearthed by metal detectorists

14:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS5E1

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs around the UK, starting with the west of Britain, where finds include lost First World War training trenches

📅 Thursday 1 January

02:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS5E1

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs around the UK, starting with the west of Britain, where finds include lost First World War training trenches

14:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS5E2

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs in the north of Britain, where finds include Scottish man-made islands that help paint a picture of Stone Age tech

14:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS10E1

Alice Roberts visits digs in southern England that reveal a previously unknown Roman town, a Tudor ship and evidence of Henry VIII's financial forgery

15:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS10E2

Alice Roberts visits more archaeological digs, including a spectacular monument older than Stonehenge, a 200-year-old mine trapped in time and a lost medieval friary

16:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS10E3

Alice Roberts examines a gatehouse riddled with Civil War bullets, a unique Iron Age shield made from bark, and Roman burials with pots where the heads should be

17:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS10E4

Alice Roberts examines a Dutch ship sunk by the English, a Cornish Roman fort and a 5,000-year-old Neolithic monument

📅 Friday 2 January

02:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS5E2

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs in the north of Britain, where finds include Scottish man-made islands that help paint a picture of Stone Age tech

06:0055 mins
Digging for BritainS10E1

Alice Roberts visits digs in southern England that reveal a previously unknown Roman town, a Tudor ship and evidence of Henry VIII's financial forgery

06:5555 mins
Digging for BritainS10E2

Alice Roberts visits more archaeological digs, including a spectacular monument older than Stonehenge, a 200-year-old mine trapped in time and a lost medieval friary

07:5055 mins
Digging for BritainS10E3

Alice Roberts examines a gatehouse riddled with Civil War bullets, a unique Iron Age shield made from bark, and Roman burials with pots where the heads should be

08:4555 mins
Digging for BritainS10E4

Alice Roberts examines a Dutch ship sunk by the English, a Cornish Roman fort and a 5,000-year-old Neolithic monument

14:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS5E3

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs in the east of Britain, where finds include new revelations from a 3,000-year-old preserved village in Cambridgeshire

15:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS7E1

Alice Roberts shares the best archaeological discoveries of 2018, starting with the North of the UK and a preserved prehistoric village at the black Loch in Myrton

📅 Saturday 3 January

02:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS5E3

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs in the east of Britain, where finds include new revelations from a 3,000-year-old preserved village in Cambridgeshire

03:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS7E1

Alice Roberts shares the best archaeological discoveries of 2018, starting with the North of the UK and a preserved prehistoric village at the black Loch in Myrton

11:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS4E2

Archaeological finds across the east of Britain including divers searching the Thames for clues to a 17th-century tragedy and a metal detectorist making the discovery of a lifetime

12:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS5E1

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs around the UK, starting with the west of Britain, where finds include lost First World War training trenches

18:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS5E2

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs in the north of Britain, where finds include Scottish man-made islands that help paint a picture of Stone Age tech

📅 Sunday 4 January

11:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS4E3

Archaeological finds across the North of Britain, including clues to Scotland's first kingdoms and a hoard of Viking treasure unearthed by metal detectorists

12:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS5E3

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs in the east of Britain, where finds include new revelations from a 3,000-year-old preserved village in Cambridgeshire

18:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS7E1

Alice Roberts shares the best archaeological discoveries of 2018, starting with the North of the UK and a preserved prehistoric village at the black Loch in Myrton

📅 Monday 5 January

14:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS6E1

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs around the UK, starting with the west of Britain, where finds include a Viking camp and ancient gold

15:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS7E2

Alice Roberts investigates the best archaeological discoveries of 2018 from the West of the UK, including the biggest maritime excavation since the Mary Rose

📅 Tuesday 6 January

02:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS6E1

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs around the UK, starting with the west of Britain, where finds include a Viking camp and ancient gold

03:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS7E2

Alice Roberts investigates the best archaeological discoveries of 2018 from the West of the UK, including the biggest maritime excavation since the Mary Rose

14:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS6E2

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs in the east of the country, where finds include Britain's biggest Roman letter hoard, sunken treasure and Caesar's Fort

15:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS7E3

Alice Roberts investigates best archaeological discoveries of 2018 from the East of the UK, including an ancient lost monument as old as Stonehenge uncovered in Suffolk

📅 Wednesday 7 January

02:1050 mins
Digging for BritainS6E2

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs in the east of the country, where finds include Britain's biggest Roman letter hoard, sunken treasure and Caesar's Fort

03:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS7E3

Alice Roberts investigates best archaeological discoveries of 2018 from the East of the UK, including an ancient lost monument as old as Stonehenge uncovered in Suffolk

14:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS6E3

Alice Roberts joins archaeologists in the North as they uncover Roman writing tablets, a lost monastery and a rare Bronze Age weapons hoard

15:0060 mins
Digging for Britain: Iron Age RevealedS7E4

Professor Alice Roberts follows archaeologists as they unearth Britain's most spectacular iron-age grave, a chariot burial in East Yorkshire

21:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS13E1

Alice Roberts and Tori Herridge present evidence of a bloody massacre in the Highlands, and one of the largest Roman cemeteries ever found in Britain

📅 Thursday 8 January

02:0060 mins
Digging for BritainS6E3

Alice Roberts joins archaeologists in the North as they uncover Roman writing tablets, a lost monastery and a rare Bronze Age weapons hoard

03:0060 mins
Digging for Britain: Iron Age RevealedS7E4

Professor Alice Roberts follows archaeologists as they unearth Britain's most spectacular iron-age grave, a chariot burial in East Yorkshire