Season 8

S8 · E1 · 20/11/2019 · 1 h 00 min

West

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.

S8 · E2 · 27/11/2019 · 1 h 00 min

North

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.

S8 · E3 · 04/12/2019 · 1 h 00 min

South

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.

S8 · E4 · 11/12/2019 · 1 h 00 min

WWII Special

The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefacts from World War II.