Digging for Britain

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs, starting with the west of Britain

Alice Roberts visits archaeological digs around the UK, starting with the west of Britain. She discovers lost First World War training trenches on Salisbury Plain, visits Britain's first 'double henge' discovered just down the road from Stonehenge, dives into the English Channel to explore an 18th-century East India company ship packed with silver, and unearths luxury foreign goods discovered at Tintagel, the legendary childhood home of King Arthur