Terry Black
Director
Digging for Britain (2010)
Series 13
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.
Released Aug. 19, 2010
Episode 59 min
14+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.educational, tmdb.archaeologist, tmdb.british-history, tmdb.archaeological-dig, imdb.country, imdb.archaeological-excavation, imdb.britain
Production Companies: Rare TV, 360 Production
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S13E1 - Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park
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.
Jan. 7, 2026, midnight
S13E2 - Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig
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.
Jan. 14, 2026, midnight
S13E3 - A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship
Rare Anglo-Saxon swords, a mysterious and macabre Roman bone box and a cross-continental investigation into Admiral Nelson’s favourite ship.
Jan. 21, 2026, midnight
S13E4 - England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky
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.
Jan. 28, 2026, midnight
S13E5 - Medieval Murder and Roman Pets
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.
Feb. 4, 2026, midnight
S13E6 - A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing Well
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.
Feb. 5, 2026, midnight
BBC Two
59 min/ep
3509 min
Aug. 19, 2010
Jan. 21, 2026, midnight
Returning Series
TV-14 / 14+
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