Digging for Britain

A look at the camp from which Vikings invaded Britain, and groundbreaking evidence that the world-famous Avebury stone circle isn't just a sacred site but a place where people lived and worked. In Staffordshire, the oldest Iron Age gold in Britain is unearthed.

A look at the biggest collection of Roman writing tablets in Britain, giving insight into what Roman London was really like. Off the coast of Kent, a dive into the English Channel reveals the biggest marine excavation since the Mary Rose, an 18th-century East India Company ship packed with silver.

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, an...

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.