Digging for Britain

  

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Digging for Britain5/6. The warhorses that changed the course of history, a medieval murder mystery and a 300-million-year-old forest that built the modern world. Also in HD. [S,AD,SL]Sat, Feb 7, 2:40 amBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain5/6. The warhorses that changed the course of history, a medieval murder mystery and a 300-million-year-old forest that built the modern world. Also in HD. [S,AD]Sun, Feb 8, 1:15 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain6/6. Roman cavalry swords, an ancient wishing well and the origins of St Michael's Mount. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Feb 11, 11:30 pmBBC TWO60 mins

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New: Digging for Britain6/6. Roman cavalry swords, an ancient wishing well and the origins of St Michael's Mount. Also in HD. [S,AD]Thu, Feb 5, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
New: Digging for Britain5/6. The warhorses that changed the course of history, a medieval murder mystery and a 300-million-year-old forest that built the modern world. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Feb 4, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain4/6. The lost estate of Harold Godwinson, last Anglo-Saxon king of England, a completely intact 4,000-year-old cremation vessel and an unprecedented Roman whetstone factory. Also in HD. [S,AD]Sat, Jan 31, 6:25 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain4/6. The lost estate of Harold Godwinson, last Anglo-Saxon king of England, a completely intact 4,000-year-old cremation vessel and an unprecedented Roman whetstone factory. Also in HD. [S,AD,SL]Fri, Jan 30, 8:00 amBBC TWO60 mins
New: Digging for Britain4/6. The lost estate of Harold Godwinson, last Anglo-Saxon king of England, a completely intact 4,000-year-old cremation vessel and an unprecedented Roman whetstone factory. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Jan 28, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain3/6. Rare Anglo-Saxon swords, a mysterious and macabre Roman bone box and a cross-continental investigation into Admiral Nelson's favourite ship. Also in HD. [S,AD]Sun, Jan 25, 6:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain3/6. Rare Anglo-Saxon swords, a mysterious and macabre Roman bone box and a cross-continental investigation into Admiral Nelson's favourite ship. Also in HD. [S,AD,SL]Fri, Jan 23, 8:00 amBBC TWO60 mins
New: Digging for Britain3/6. Rare Anglo-Saxon swords, a mysterious and macabre Roman bone box and a cross-continental investigation into Admiral Nelson's favourite ship. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Jan 21, 9:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain2/6. An astonishing Iron Age hoard, the UK's biggest dig and Romano-British interior design. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Jan 20, 11:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain2/6. An astonishing Iron Age hoard, the UK's biggest dig and Romano-British interior design. Also in HD. [S,AD,SL]Fri, Jan 16, 8:00 amBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain1/6. Visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, Bradford's first Muslim burial and, from the 1970s, Scotland's first skatepark. Also in HD. [S,AD]Sun, Jan 11, 6:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain1/6. Visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, Bradford's first Muslim burial and, from the 1970s, Scotland's first skatepark. Also in HD. [S,AD,SL]Fri, Jan 9, 8:00 amBBC TWO60 mins
New: Digging for Britain1/6. Visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, Bradford's first Muslim burial and, from the 1970s, Scotland's first skatepark. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Jan 7, 9:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain6/6. Britain's first Romani dig, a grisly Georgian discovery and a rare Roman funeral bed. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Nov 11, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain5/6. A vast Roman building, an Iron Age chariot and Devon's transatlantic slave trade past. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Nov 4, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain4/6. Gold is found at a bishop's palace, a Roman crime is uncovered, detectorists unearth a staggering bronze age haul, and ancient DNA solves a medieval mystery. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Oct 28, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain2/6. A quarryman makes the discovery of a set of very large footprints, and a chance find reveals a spectacular Roman villa with mosaics and a sauna. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Oct 7, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain1/6. Featuring the most incredible grave goods ever found on Digging for Britain, a strange Roman sarcophagus filled with plaster and an intriguing medieval coin hoard. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Sept 30, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain6/6. In Scotland and the north of England, Alice investigates an Ice Age camp, the mystery of a medieval skeleton and the earliest evidence of salt making in Britain. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Sept 24, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain5/6. Travelling east, Alice discovers a Roman barn conversion, unearths a Tudor fort and finds intricately carved 10,000-year-old weapons. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Sept 17, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain3/6. 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. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Sept 2, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain2/6. In the west of the UK, a spectacular monument older than Stonehenge, a 200-year-old mine trapped in time and a lost medieval friary. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Aug 13, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain1/6. Digs in southern England reveal a previously unknown Roman town, a Tudor ship buried beneath a quarry and evidence of Henry VIII's financial forgery under the Tower of London. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Aug 6, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain6/6. A fortress on the edge of a cliff, the oldest house in Cardiff and a Roman mosaic. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Jul 29, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain5/6. Archaeology in the south of England unearths Britain's oldest shoe, the lost shipyard of one of England's greatest warrior kings and Britain's top-secret WWII defences. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Jul 22, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain4/6. The strangest object ever seen on Digging for Britain, and Waterloo's disappearing dead. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Jul 16, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain3/6. In the west of Britain, there's a rare medieval cemetery, a disappearing Mesolithic landscape, a mysterious Iron Age burial and the ruins of a Gothic masterpiece. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Jul 1, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain2/6. In central England, an RAF airbase with a Roman past, a forgotten medieval nunnery, a gold pendant from a 7th-century grave and a pub with a very long history of hospitality. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Jun 24, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain1/6. Digs in northern Britain reveal a Roman emperor's lost bathhouse, the sunken treasures of medieval pilgrims and a formidable fortress perched on top of a Scottish mountain. Also in HD. [S,AD]Thu, May 15, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain6/6. Featuring a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, evidence of early writing by the Picts in Scotland and a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age coffin buried under a golf course. Also in HD. [S,AD]Thu, May 8, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain5/6. A new Roman town and hundreds of finds are discovered. The Cerne Giant finally gets a date, and a World War II air crash mystery is laid to rest. Also in HD. [S,AD]Thu, May 1, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain4/6. Unearthing a Jurassic giant, investigating finds from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and uncovering the hidden heart of Roman Leicester. Also in HD. [S,AD]Thu, Apr 24, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain3/6. The best archaeology from the north of Britain, including Scotland's oldest railway, one of the best-preserved Norman castles and an extraordinary find from a Neolithic tomb. Also in HD. [S,AD]Thu, Apr 17, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain2/6. A massive hoard of Roman treasure is revealed under a Norman church. Also in HD. [S,AD]Thu, Apr 10, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain1/6. The astonishing discovery of a mosaic has art historians, archaeologists and Alice very excited as they slowly reveal its full beauty. Also in HD. [S,AD]Thu, Apr 3, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain6/6. Britain's first Romani dig, a grisly Georgian discovery and a rare Roman funeral bed. Also in HD. [S,AD,SL]Tue, Feb 4, 8:00 amBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain3/6. Exploring Britain's islands: a 5,000-year-old Neolithic tomb, an international effort to save a WWI warship, and a Neanderthal hunting ground off Jersey's coast. Also in HD. [S,AD,SL]Wed, Jan 22, 2:05 amBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain2/6. A quarryman makes the discovery of a set of very large footprints, and a chance find reveals a spectacular Roman villa with mosaics and a sauna. Also in HD. [S,AD,SL]Tue, Jan 21, 8:00 amBBC TWO60 mins
New: Digging for Britain6/6. Britain's first Romani dig, a grisly Georgian discovery and a rare Roman funeral bed. Also in HD. [S,AD]Thu, Jan 16, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
New: Digging for Britain5/6. A vast Roman building, an Iron Age chariot and Devon's transatlantic slave trade past. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Jan 15, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
New: Digging for Britain4/6. Gold is found at a bishop's palace, a Roman crime is uncovered, detectorists unearth a staggering bronze age haul, and ancient DNA solves a medieval mystery. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Jan 14, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain1/6. The most incredible grave goods ever found on Digging for Britain, a strange Roman sarcophagus filled with plaster and an intriguing medieval coin hoard. Also in HD. [S,AD,SL]Tue, Jan 14, 8:00 amBBC TWO60 mins
New: Digging for Britain3/6. Exploring Britain's islands: a 5,000-year-old Neolithic tomb, an international effort to save a WWI warship, and a Neanderthal hunting ground off Jersey's coast. Also in HD. [S,AD]Thu, Jan 9, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
New: Digging for Britain2/6. A quarryman makes the discovery of a set of very large footprints, and a chance find reveals a spectacular Roman villa with mosaics and a sauna. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Jan 8, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
New: Digging for Britain1/6. The most incredible grave goods ever found on Digging for Britain, a strange Roman sarcophagus filled with plaster and an intriguing medieval coin hoard. Also in HD. [S,AD]Tue, Jan 7, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain3/4. How a lobster helped archaeologists discover an 8,000-year-old underwater settlement. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Dec 4, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain2/4. Archaeologists find more than they expect in the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Nov 27, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain3/4. Prof Alice Roberts investigates this year's best archaeological discoveries from the east. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Nov 13, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain2/4. Alice Roberts shares archaeological discoveries from the west of the UK, including the biggest maritime excavation since the Mary Rose, a Roman bath house and a German camp. Also in HD. [S,AD]Wed, Nov 6, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins
Digging for Britain1/4. Alice Roberts celebrates the biggest and best archaeological discoveries of 2018 from the north of the UK. Also in HD. [S]Wed, Oct 30, 8:00 pmBBC TWO60 mins