Alice M. Roberts
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Digging For Britain volume 1
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In the first episode of season four, we're in the West of Britain and archaeologists join us back in the Dorset Country Museum to look at new finds and what they mean.
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Digging For Britain volume 4
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In the final episode of the series, Dr. Alice Roberts goes in search of the Tudor Age, a time that saw momentous changes across all aspects of British life. Along the way, Alice visits excavations at Shakespeare's first theater in London's Shoreditch, where the bard began his career and where Romeo and Juliet was first performed. She goes on to join a team sifting through Shakespeare's rubbish at his last home in Stratford-Upon-Avon and finds revealing...
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Digging For Britain volume 1
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In this episode, the team investigates Roman Britannia, where finds include the thickening mystery of ninety-seven baby skeletons found by the Thames, a newly-discovered town in rural Devon 's that turns history on its head, and a Roman cult figure buried for 1700 years beneath a fort.
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Digging For Britain volume 4
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English
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In this special episode, the team is on the hunt for archaeology from our more recent past as they search for artifacts from World War II. They join marine archaeologists in the Solent as they raise the once-in-a-lifetime find of a Fairey Barracuda dive-bomber.
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Digging For Britain volume 4
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Alice Roberts follows the excavation of Iron Age Britain's most spectacular grave while a team of archaeologists in East Yorkshire have uncovered the remains of only the third upright chariot burial ever found in Britain, and the only chariot burial ever found in this country with the chariot harnessed to two standing ponies.
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Digging For Britain volume 1
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The first episode of season three finds the team in the Norwich Castle Museum, to look at new finds and what they mean. Archaeologists discover artifacts that give us an unparalleled glimpse into what life looked like 3,000 years ago, while burial rituals reveal the secrets of Anglo-Saxon childbirth.
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Digging For Britain volume 1
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This first episode follows Dr. Alice Roberts and her team as they compare results from digs and investigations all over Britain. The results are astonishing-and sometimes disturbing. On this dig, her team uncovers the bodies of ninety-seven babies murdered by the Thames, a fabulous Roman coin hoard found in Somerset, and a man buried on a layer of dead animals.
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Digging For Britain volume 1
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In the first episode of season six, we discover the camp from which Vikings invaded Britain-and find groundbreaking new evidence that the world-famous Avebury stone circle isn't just a sacred site, but a place where our ancestors lived and worked.
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Digging For Britain volume 3
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English
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In this episode, we find out how a lobster led archaeologists to the discovery of an 8,000-year-old Neolithic underwater settlement. We also join a team at a secret location in Dorset as they excavate an Iron Age crouched burial.
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Digging For Britain volume 1
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Uncovering incredibly preserved 2,500-year-old houses, archaeologists are stepping back in time and getting a glimpse of what life was really like in an Iron Age village.
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Digging For Britain volume 4
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A team of archaeologists and historical re-enactors attempt to re-stage a Roman Cavalry tournament-a spectacle that no one has seen for over 1,600 years-in the final episode of season six.
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Digging For Britain volume 3
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A team discovers clues to Scotland's first kingdoms, metal detectorists unearth a hoard of Viking treasure, and a new housing development reveals a graveyard of Iron Age warriors.
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Digging For Britain volume 1
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In the first episode of season eight, we explore this year's finds in the West of Britain and a secret location in the Cotswolds, with all the hallmarks of high-status Anglo Saxon cemetery, gives up a very precious and fragile artifact.
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Digging For Britain volume 2
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English
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In the North, the remains of a Tudor house in Leicestershire were thought to be the childhood home of England's forgotten Queen, Lady Jane Grey. But when archaeologists excavate, they find more than they bargained for.
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Digging For Britain volume 2
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Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present this year's most outstanding archaeology from the North of Britain. Sitting in the heart of the Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site-the Ness of Brodgar houses a 5000-year-old temple, at the heart of a sacred landscape, built out of stone over hundreds of years. Then, we catch the unearthing of a Roman altar dedicated to Jupiter that was originally carved in the second century, when Maryport...
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Digging For Britain volume 1
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In this episode, the crew is in the West of Britain and is joined by archaeologists in the lab to check out some new finds and figure out what they mean. These finds include the lost World War I training trenches on Salisbury Plain, Britain's first double henge-discovered just down the road from Stonehenge-where the evidence suggests our ancestors feasted and made sacred offerings as part of a visit to the ritualistic Stonehenge landscape. They also...
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Digging For Britain volume 4
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In the final episode of season two, Alice goes in search of our elusive Stone Age ancestors. Along the way, she visits the channel island of Jersey where she meets a team of archaeologists hoping to shed new light on the much-maligned Neanderthals. At a natural history museum, Alice comes face to face with the dark side of our Ice Age ancestors when she's met with evidence of cannibalism and the ritual use of human skulls.
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Digging For Britain volume 2
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The largest collection of Roman writing tablets in Britain are unearthed and help give the team insight into what Roman London as really like. While off the coast of Kent, the team dive into the English Channel to complete the biggest marine excavation since the Mary Rose.
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Digging For Britain volume 2
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Dr. Alice Roberts explores the year's most exciting archaeological finds as the team unearths a mass grave, divers search the Thames for clues to a seventeenth-century tragedy, and a metal detectorist makes the find of a lifetime.
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Digging For Britain volume 3
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English
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The team discovers the writing tablets, swords, and domestic items left behind by the Romans at Vindolanda during a time of British rebellion.