Digging for Britain

Series 13

6 episodes · Jan 7, 2026

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  • Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park
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    Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park

    Jan 7, 202659m

    Featuring visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, one of the largest Roman cemeteries ever found in Britain, Bradford’s first Muslim burial, more finds in Carlisle from a Roman bathhouse, and from the 1970s, Scotland’s first skatepark.

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  • Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig
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    Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig

    Jan 14, 202659m

    Featuring two incredibly rare finds from an Iron Age hoard, a look inside the UK’s largest and most complex dig in a generation, an Iron Age site perched on the very edge of the White Cliffs of Dover, and the earliest example of an artist’s signature from Roman Britain.

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  • A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship
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    A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship

    Jan 21, 202659m

    Rare Anglo-Saxon swords, a mysterious and macabre Roman bone box and a cross-continental investigation into Admiral Nelson’s favourite ship.

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  • England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky
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    England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky

    Jan 28, 202658m

    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.

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  • Medieval Murder and Roman Pets
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    Medieval Murder and Roman Pets

    Feb 4, 202659m

    Featuring a vast first-century Roman compound, the warhorses that changed the course of history, a medieval murder mystery, the thriving farmstead belonging to Isaac Newton's mother, thousands of animal bones from a Roman farm, and a 300-million-year-old forest that built the modern world.

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  • A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing Well
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    A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing Well

    Feb 5, 202658m

    Tantalising clues to the ancient origin story of St Michael’s Mount, rare Roman cavalry swords with hidden secrets and a wishing well of coins at a promontory fort in Pembrokeshire.

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