6.5/1011 votesLoading...#1 - West
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 1/12/2022
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.
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6.7/107 votesLoading...#2 - East
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/3/2015
Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present 2014's most outstanding archaeology. In the summer, archaeologists have been unearthing our history in hundreds of digs across Britain. They have gone to extraordinary lengths to uncover long lost treasures - retelling our story in a way only archaeology can. With unique access to some of the country's best digs, our teams have been self-shooting their excavations to make sure the audience is there for every moment of discovery. In this episode, we're in the east of Britain, and the archaeologists join us back in the Norwich Castle Museum to look at the new finds and what they mean.
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7.0/1010 votesLoading...#3 - South
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 12/4/2019
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.
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7.0/1012 votesLoading...#4 - East
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2022
The astonishing discovery of a mosaic has art historians, archaeologists and Alice very excited as they slowly reveal its full beauty.
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7.0/1011 votesLoading...#5 - South
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 1/5/2022
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.
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7.0/1013 votesLoading...#6 - Midlands
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 1/11/2022
Unearthing a Jurassic giant, investigating finds from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and uncovering the hidden heart of Roman Leicester.
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7.0/1012 votesLoading...#7 - Arthur's Stone and a Georgian Mine
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2023
In the west of the UK, a spectacular monument older than Stonehenge, a 200-year-old mine trapped in time and a lost medieval friary.
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7.1/1010 votesLoading...#8 - Prehistory
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/26/2010
Her journey takes her from Orkney to Devon by land, sea and air. In Norfolk, flint tools unearthed this year push the earliest human occupation back by 200,000 years, to around one million years ago. In Orkney an early farm yields glimpses of our ancestors' earliest religious beliefs and customs - cattle skulls buried within building walls, and tiny household goddesses. In Devon, we find one of the oldest known shipwrecks. And a bronze age burial holds a mystery, and touching evidence of grief echoing down over 2000 years.
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7.1/1014 votesLoading...#9 - North
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 1/13/2022
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.
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7.1/108 votesLoading...#10 - 3000-Year-Old Shoes and Giant Axeheads
Season 11 Episode 5 - Aired 1/10/2024
Archaeology in the south of England unearths Britain’s oldest shoe, the lost shipyard of one of England’s greatest warrior kings and Britain’s top-secret WWII defences.
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7.2/108 votesLoading...#11 - WWII Special
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 12/11/2019
The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefacts from World War II.
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#12 - Roman Towns and Tudor Shipwrecks
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2023
Digs in southern England reveal a previously unknown Roman town, a Tudor ship buried beneath a quarry and evidence of Henry VIII’s financial under the Tower of London.
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7.2/109 votesLoading...#13 - A Roman Mystery and Waterloo’s Disappearing Dead
Season 11 Episode 4 - Aired 1/9/2024
Roberts reveals the most fascinating archaeological finds this year in the East of England: a Roman dodecahedron, the secrets of Boudicca’s hill fort and Waterloo’s disappearing dead.
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7.3/106 votesLoading...#14 - West
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/10/2015
Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present 2014's most outstanding archaeology. In the summer, archaeologists have been unearthing our history in hundreds of digs across Britain. They have gone to extraordinary lengths to uncover long lost treasures - retelling our story in a way only archaeology can. With unique access to some of the country's best digs, our teams have been self-shooting their excavations to make sure the audience is there for every moment of discovery. In this episode, we're in the west of Britain, and the archaeologists join us back in the Dorset Country Museum to look at the new finds and what they mean
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7.3/106 votesLoading...#15 - North
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/17/2015
Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present 2014'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 5,000-year-old temple at the heart of a sacred landscape, built out of stone over hundreds of years. We catch the unearthing of a Roman altar dedicated to Jupiter that was originally carved in the 2nd century, when Maryport was part of the coastal defences linked to Hadrian's Wall. 11,000 years ago Flixton in Yorkshire was an island used by our very earliest ancestors, and it has preserved vital clues about their world and the wild horses they hunted and ate. In Ardnamurchan, a 5,000-year-old cemetery - housing burials from the Bronze and Iron Ages... and an intact Viking boat burial. A Tudor-era aristocrat's feasting hall is revealed... and how one night the revelry came to a very abrupt end. One of the richest hoards of Pictish treasure ever found reveals the metalworking secrets of the mysterious tribes who ruled Dark Ages Scotland.
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7.3/109 votesLoading...#16 - North
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 11/27/2019
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.
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#17 - Roman Mosaics and Ancient Weapons
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/2023
Travelling east, Alice discovers a Roman barn conversion, unearths a Tudor fort and finds intricately carved 10,000-year-old weapons.
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7.3/1012 votesLoading...#18 - The Roman Emperor’s Bathhouse
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2024
Digs in northern Britain reveal a Roman emperor’s lost bathhouse, the sunken treasures of medieval pilgrims and a formidable fortress perched on top of a Scottish mountain.
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7.3/1010 votesLoading...#19 - Anglo-Saxon Gold and Rebellious Nuns
Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/2024
In central England, an RAF airbase with a Roman past, a forgotten medieval nunnery, a gold pendant from a 7th-century grave and a pub with a very long history of hospitality.
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7.4/109 votesLoading...#20 - A Norman Panic Room and a Mesolithic Fish Trap
Season 11 Episode 3 - Aired 1/4/2024
In the west of Britain, there's a rare medieval cemetery, a disappearing Mesolithic landscape, a mysterious Iron Age burial and the ruins of a Gothic masterpiece.
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#21 - Headless Romans and Anglo Saxon Gold
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2023
A gatehouse riddled with Civil War bullets, a unique Iron Age shield made from bark and Roman burials with pots where the heads should be.
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7.5/106 votesLoading...#22 - Forgotten Fortresses and Lost Villages
Season 11 Episode 6 - Aired 1/11/2024
Digs in the West of Britain reveal a forgotten fortress teetering on the edge of a cliff, evidence of the oldest house in Cardiff and a discovery at a Roman mosaic that shocks the experts.
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7.6/108 votesLoading...#23 - Britannia
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/2011
Looks at Roman Britannia, where finds include the thickening mystery of 97 baby skeletons.
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7.6/1010 votesLoading...#24 - West
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 11/20/2019
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.
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7.6/1014 votesLoading...#25 - North
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 1/6/2022
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.
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The Worst Episodes of Digging for Britain
Every episode of Digging for Britain ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Digging for Britain!
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two
Worst Episodes Summary
"West" is the worst rated episode of "Digging for Britain". It scored 6.5/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/12/2022. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "East".