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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 Worst Episode
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    Digging for Britain Season 3 Episode 1 - East
    6.7/10(7 votes)

    #1 - East

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Digging for Britain Season 9 Episode 5 - West
    6.7/10(13 votes)

    #2 - West

    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.

    Directors:Louise Ord, Terry Black, John Martin
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Digging for Britain Season 13 Episode 1 - Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park
    6.9/10(7 votes)

    #3 - Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park

    S13:E1

    Featuring visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, one of the largest Roman cemeteries ever found in Britain, Bradford’s first Muslim burial, more finds in Carlisle from a Roman bathhouse, and from the 1970s, Scotland’s first skatepark.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Digging for Britain Season 1 Episode 2 - Prehistory
    7.0/10(14 votes)

    #4 - Prehistory

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Digging for Britain Season 9 Episode 1 - East
    7.1/10(14 votes)

    #5 - East

    S9:E1

    The astonishing discovery of a mosaic has art historians, archaeologists and Alice very excited as they slowly reveal its full beauty.

    Directors:Louise Ord, Theo Williams, Terry Black, Joseph Cunningham
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Digging for Britain Season 9 Episode 2 - South
    7.1/10(13 votes)

    #6 - South

    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.

    Directors:Louise Ord, Terry Black
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Digging for Britain Season 9 Episode 4 - Midlands
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #7 - Midlands

    S9:E4

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

    Directors:Louise Ord, Terry Black, Nathan Budd
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Digging for Britain Season 9 Episode 6 - North
    7.1/10(16 votes)

    #8 - North

    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.

    Directors:Louise Ord, Terry Black
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Digging for Britain Season 8 Episode 3 - South
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #9 - South

    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.

    Directors:Sophie Smith, Gareth Sacala
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Digging for Britain Season 10 Episode 2 - Arthur's Stone and a Georgian Mine
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    #10 - Arthur's Stone and a Georgian Mine

    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.

    Directors:Terry Black, Colin Davies
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Digging for Britain Season 11 Episode 4 - A Roman Mystery and Waterloo’s Disappearing Dead
    7.2/10(11 votes)

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

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Digging for Britain Season 11 Episode 5 - 3000-Year-Old Shoes and Giant Axeheads
    7.2/10(10 votes)

    #12 - 3000-Year-Old Shoes and Giant Axeheads

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Digging for Britain Season 3 Episode 2 - West
    7.3/10(6 votes)

    #13 - West

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Digging for Britain Season 3 Episode 3 - North
    7.3/10(6 votes)

    #14 - North

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Digging for Britain Season 10 Episode 1 - Roman Towns and Tudor Shipwrecks
    7.3/10(17 votes)

    #15 - Roman Towns and Tudor Shipwrecks

    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.

    Directors:Terry Black, Colin Davies
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Digging for Britain Season 11 Episode 2 - Anglo-Saxon Gold and Rebellious Nuns
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #16 - Anglo-Saxon Gold and Rebellious Nuns

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Digging for Britain Season 8 Episode 4 - WWII Special
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #17 - WWII Special

    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.

    Director:Sophie Smith
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Digging for Britain Season 9 Episode 3 - North
    7.4/10(17 votes)

    #18 - North

    S9:E3

    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.

    Directors:Louise Ord, Terry Black
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Digging for Britain Season 10 Episode 5 - Roman Mosaics and Ancient Weapons
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #19 - Roman Mosaics and Ancient Weapons

    S10:E5

    Travelling east, Alice discovers a Roman barn conversion, unearths a Tudor fort and finds intricately carved 10,000-year-old weapons.

    Directors:Terry Black, Colin Davies
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Digging for Britain Season 11 Episode 1 - The Roman Emperor’s Bathhouse
    7.4/10(15 votes)

    #20 - The Roman Emperor’s Bathhouse

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Digging for Britain Season 11 Episode 3 - A Norman Panic Room and a Mesolithic Fish Trap
    7.4/10(12 votes)

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

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Digging for Britain Season 11 Episode 6 - Forgotten Fortresses and Lost Villages
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #22 - Forgotten Fortresses and Lost Villages

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Digging for Britain Season 8 Episode 2 - North
    7.5/10(11 votes)

    #23 - North

    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.

    Director:Gareth Sacala
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Digging for Britain Season 10 Episode 3 - Headless Romans and Anglo Saxon Gold
    7.5/10(11 votes)

    #24 - Headless Romans and Anglo Saxon Gold

    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.

    Directors:Terry Black, Nathan Budd, Colin Davies
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Digging for Britain Season 12 Episode 4 - Roman Crime and Ancient DNA
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #25 - Roman Crime and Ancient DNA

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"East" is the worst rated episode of "Digging for Britain". It scored 6.7/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/3/2015. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "West".