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The Worst Episodes of Digging for Britain

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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.

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  1. 6.5/10(11 votes)

    #1 - West

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    S9:E5

    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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  2. 6.7/10(7 votes)

    #2 - East

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    S3:E1

    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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  3. 7.0/10(10 votes)

    #3 - South

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    S8:E3

    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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  4. 7.0/10(11 votes)

    #4 - South

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    S9:E2

    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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  5. 7.0/10(13 votes)

    #5 - Midlands

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    S9:E4

    Unearthing a Jurassic giant, investigating finds from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and uncovering the hidden heart of Roman Leicester.

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  6. 7.0/10(13 votes)

    #6 - Arthur's Stone and a Georgian Mine

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    S10:E2

    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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  8. 7.1/10(10 votes)

    #7 - Prehistory

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    S1:E2

    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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  9. 7.1/10(13 votes)

    #8 - East

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    S9:E1

    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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  10. 7.1/10(14 votes)

    #9 - North

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    S9:E6

    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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  11. 7.1/10(9 votes)

    #10 - 3000-Year-Old Shoes and Giant Axeheads

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    S11:E5

    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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  12. 7.2/10(8 votes)

    #11 - WWII Special

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    S8:E4

    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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  13. 7.2/10(15 votes)

    #12 - Roman Towns and Tudor Shipwrecks

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    S10:E1

    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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  14. 7.2/10(8 votes)

    #13 - Roman Mosaics and Ancient Weapons

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    S10:E5

    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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  15. 7.2/10(10 votes)

    #14 - A Roman Mystery and Waterloo’s Disappearing Dead

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    S11:E4

    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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  16. 7.3/10(6 votes)

    #15 - West

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    S3:E2

    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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  17. 7.3/10(6 votes)

    #16 - North

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    S3:E3

    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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  18. 7.3/10(9 votes)

    #17 - North

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    S8:E2

    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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  19. 7.3/10(13 votes)

    #18 - The Roman Emperor’s Bathhouse

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    S11:E1

    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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  20. 7.4/10(9 votes)

    #19 - Headless Romans and Anglo Saxon Gold

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    S10:E3

    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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  21. 7.4/10(11 votes)

    #20 - Anglo-Saxon Gold and Rebellious Nuns

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    S11:E2

    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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  22. 7.4/10(10 votes)

    #21 - A Norman Panic Room and a Mesolithic Fish Trap

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    S11:E3

    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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  23. 7.4/10(7 votes)

    #22 - Forgotten Fortresses and Lost Villages

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    S11:E6

    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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  24. 7.4/10(13 votes)

    #23 - Roman Crime and Ancient DNA

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    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

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  25. 7.5/10(8 votes)

    #24 - Ice Age Camp and a Saint with Syphilis

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    S10:E6

    In Scotland and the north of England, Alice investigates an Ice Age camp, the mystery of a medieval skeleton and the earliest evidence of salt making in Britain.

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  26. 7.5/10(11 votes)

    #25 - Chariots and Slaves

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    S12:E5

    In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"West" is the worst rated episode of "Digging for Britain". It scored 6.5/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by Louise Ord, Terry Black, John Martin and written by N/A, it aired on 1/12/2022. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "East".