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 (6)
1. East
Aired 4 January 2022 • 60 min
The astonishing discovery of a mosaic has art historians, archaeologists and Alice very excited as they slowly reveal its full beauty.
2. South
Aired 5 January 2022 • 60 min
The south of England offers rich pickings, including the earliest money made in Britain and a massive haul of Roman treasure that brings to life the fall of the empire in Britain.
3. North
Aired 6 January 2022 • 60 min
The best archaeology from the north of Britain, including Scotland’s oldest railway, one of the best-preserved Norman castles and an extraordinary find from a Neolithic tomb.
4. Midlands
Aired 11 January 2022 • 60 min
Unearthing a Jurassic giant, investigating finds from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and uncovering the hidden heart of Roman Leicester.
5. West
Aired 12 January 2022 • 60 min
A new Roman town and hundreds of finds are discovered. The Cerne Giant finally gets a date, and a World War II air crash mystery is laid to rest.
6. North
Aired 13 January 2022 • 60 min
Featuring a Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall, evidence of early writing by the Picts in Scotland and a 3000-year-old Bronze Age coffin buried under a golf course.