About this season
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.
Episodes (4)
1. West
Aired 20 November 2019 • 60 min
Archaeological discoveries with Professor Alice Roberts. In the Cotswolds, a secret location, which appears to be a high-status Anglo Saxon cemetery, gives up a very precious and fragile artefact.
2. North
Aired 27 November 2019 • 60 min
More than is expected is found in the remains of a house thought to be the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey. Plus the graveyard of a Victorian workhouse sheds new light on the Great Famine of 1845.
3. South
Aired 4 December 2019 • 60 min
How a lobster led archaeologists to the discovery of an 8000-year-old neolithic settlement. And Naoise Mac Sweeney visits a construction site as it gives up the secrets of its Elizabethan past.
4. WWII Special
Aired 11 December 2019 • 60 min
The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefacts from World War II.