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The Best Episodes of Digging for Britain

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Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Digging for Britain Season 1 Episode 4 - The Tudors
    8.8/10(17 votes)

    S1:E4

    Alice Roberts finds out about discoveries that shed new light on the Tudor Age, visiting excavations at Shakespeare's first theatre, in London's Shoreditch, and at his last home in Stratford-upon-Avon, where clues reveal his economical use of money. In Wales, she meets a team of archaeologists learning about the realities of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, while on the banks of the Thames, the history of a forgotten royal palace is uncovered

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Digging for Britain Season 1 Episode 1 - The Romans
    8.2/10(25 votes)

    S1:E1

    Roman finds include the mystery of 97 babies murdered by the Thames, a fabulous Roman coin hoard found in Somerset and a man buried on a layer of dead animals.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Digging for Britain Season 4 Episode 2 - East
    8.2/10(10 votes)

    S4:E2

    Professor Alice Roberts explores the year's most exciting archaeological finds in the east of Britain. A team unearths a mass grave, divers search the Thames for clues to a 17th-century tragedy, and a metal detectorist makes the find of a lifetime.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Digging for Britain Season 4 Episode 3 - North
    8.2/10(9 votes)

    S4:E3

    Professor Alice Roberts explores the year's most exciting archaeological finds in the north of Britain. 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Digging for Britain Season 1 Episode 3 - Anglo-Saxons
    8.1/10(19 votes)

    S1:E3

    The Anglo-Saxons - they divided our land and heralded the arrival of the Dark Ages. But were they really just barbarians? Dr Alice Roberts continues her journey through a year of archaeology, visiting the key sites that are throwing light on this most mysterious of periods. She visits the royal seat of power at Bamburgh, Northumbria and sees how the skeletons tell tales of violent death, but also of tenderness.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Digging for Britain Season 6 Episode 1 - West
    8.1/10(20 votes)

    S6:E1

    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 - a discovery that's also changing our understanding of neighbouring Stonehenge. In Staffordshire, the oldest Iron Age gold in Britain is unearthed - a set of beautiful gold torcs, mysteriously abandoned 2,500 years ago.

    Director:Nick Gillam-Smith
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Digging for Britain Season 6 Episode 4 - The Horsemen of Hadrian's Wall
    8.0/10(21 votes)

    S6:E4

    In this special, Professor Alice Roberts reveals the forgotten story of the Roman Army's secret weapon in Britain - their cavalry. These fearsome horsemen were the key to defending Britain's most famous Roman monument fortification, Hadrian's Wall. Alice sets off across Hadrian's Wall to investigate any evidence the Roman cavalry left behind, while 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. We follow the team's training as they prepare for the performance, and Alice joins them at a public display in Carlisle where 30 riders perform in front of a crowd of spectators. To put the cavalry's story in context, the film also explores the latest archaeological digs happening across the UK, each of which is searching for new evidence of the Roman cavalry. On her journey across Hadrian's Wall, Alice visits some of the most iconic sites associated with the Roman cavalry, including Chester's Roman fort, Vindolanda fort and museum and Hexham Abbey. Along the way she builds a picture of the horsemen's lives here on the northern frontier of the Roman Empire.

    Director:James Gray
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Digging for Britain Season 12 Episode 2 - Dinosaur Highway and Roman Sauna
    8.0/10(19 votes)

    S12:E2

    A quarryman makes the discovery of a set of very large footprints, and a chance find reveals a spectacular Roman villa with mosaics and a sauna

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Digging for Britain Season 13 Episode 2 - Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig
    8.0/10(14 votes)

    S13:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Digging for Britain Season 4 Episode 1 - West
    7.9/10(11 votes)

    S4:E1

    This episode heads to the west of Britain, while archaeologists join us back in the Salisbury Museum to look at the new finds and what they mean.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Digging for Britain Season 2 Episode 1 - Britannia
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    S2:E1

    Looks at Roman Britannia, where finds include the thickening mystery of 97 baby skeletons.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Digging for Britain Season 2 Episode 2 - Invaders
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    S2:E2

    Includes a visit to Orkney where Viking dominance outlasted anywhere else in Britain.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Digging for Britain Season 2 Episode 3 - Age of Bronze and Iron
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    S2:E3

    Dr Alice Roberts discovers what kind of a place Britain was before the Romans invaded.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Digging for Britain Season 5 Episode 1 - West
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    S5:E1

    Finds include training trenches on Salisbury Plain and luxury foreign goods at Tintagel.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Digging for Britain Season 5 Episode 3 - East
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    S5:E3

    Finds include the theatre where Shakespeare premiered Romeo and Juliet and Henry V.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Digging for Britain Season 6 Episode 2 - East
    7.8/10(19 votes)

    S6:E2

    We unearth the biggest collection of Roman writing tablets in Britain, giving insight into what Roman London was really like. Off the coast of Kent, we dive into the English Channel to complete the biggest marine excavation since the Mary Rose - an 18th-century East India Company ship, packed with silver. Also in Kent, we're on the detective trail to find the very first evidence of Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain - an ancient fort scattered with human skulls and weapons.

    Director:Alex Rowson
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Digging for Britain Season 6 Episode 3 - North
    7.8/10(18 votes)

    S6:E3

    Alice discovers the well-preserved writing tablets, swords and domestic items left by Romans at Vindolanda during a time of British rebellion. On the Scottish island of Iona, there are traces of a long-lost monastery and pilgrimage site that was originally built by the legendary saint Columba, and has been compared to Jerusalem. In the east of Scotland, a weapons hoard belonging to a wealthy Bronze Age warrior is unearthed.

    Director:Fiona Cushley
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Digging for Britain Season 7 Episode 4 - Iron Age Revealed
    7.8/10(16 votes)

    S7:E4

    Alice Roberts follows the excavation of Iron Age Britain’s most spectacular grave. 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. This sensational find is the lead dig for the Digging for Britain Iron Age special.

    Director:Tom Ranson
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Digging for Britain Season 12 Episode 1 - Saxon Gold and Buried Coins
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    S12:E1

    The most incredible grave goods ever found on Digging for Britain, a strange Roman sarcophagus filled with plaster and an intriguing medieval coin hoard.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Digging for Britain Season 2 Episode 4 - Ice and Stone
    7.7/10(11 votes)

    S2:E4

    Dr Alice Roberts goes in search of our elusive Stone Age ancestors.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Digging for Britain Season 8 Episode 1 - West
    7.7/10(12 votes)

    S8:E1

    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.

    Director:Sophie Smith
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Digging for Britain Season 10 Episode 4 - Mystery Shipwreck and a Roman Army Camp
    7.7/10(13 votes)

    S10:E4

    Alice Roberts reveals a Dutch ship sunk by the English, a Cornish Roman fort and a 5000-year-old Neolithic monument.

    Directors:Terry Black, Colin Davies
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Digging for Britain Season 12 Episode 3 - Island Treasures
    7.7/10(18 votes)

    S12:E3

    Exploring Britain’s islands: a 5,000-year-old Neolithic tomb, an international effort to save a WWI warship, and a Neanderthal hunting ground off Jersey’s coast.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Digging for Britain Season 12 Episode 4 - Roman Crime and Ancient DNA
    7.7/10(17 votes)

    S12:E4

    Gold is found at a bishop’s palace, a Roman crime is uncovered, detectorists unearth a staggering bronze age haul, and ancient DNA solves a medieval mystery

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Digging for Britain Season 5 Episode 2 - North
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    S5:E2

    Finds include evidence of the first Roman siege in Britain and Scottish man-made islands.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Tudors" is the best rated episode of "Digging for Britain". It scored 8.8/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/10/2010. This episode scored 0.6 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Romans".