Season 8
2019 · 4 episodes
Episodes
1. West
November 20, 2019 · 1h
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
November 27, 2019 · 1h
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
December 4, 2019 · 1h
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
December 11, 2019 · 1h
The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefacts from World War II.