Digging for Britain

Professor Alice Roberts celebrates the biggest and best archaeological discoveries of 2018 from the north of the UK, starting with a prehistoric Pompeii at the Black Loch of Myrton.

We join a team as they undertake the largest maritime investigation since the Mary Rose and reveal the extraordinary story of HMS Invincible.

Professor Alice Roberts explores 2018's best archaeological finds from the east of the UK: a monument as old as Stonehenge, a dig at the site of Britain's first tank battle, and some disturbing Roman burials.

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 harnesse...