Digging for Britain

BBC Two HD

8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Thursday 5 February

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Featuring a team of archaeologists looking for evidence that St Michael's Mount in Cornwall was the fabled trading hub of Ictis, as well as an analysis of 291 bodies from the long-lost Dominican friary of St Saviour's in Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire. Plus, two incredibly rare Roman cavalry swords discovered at a metal-detecting rally in Willersey, near Cheltenham, a look at how 3D scanning and printing are transforming the study of fragile artefacts, and a wishing well of coins found at a complex promontory fort in Pembrokeshire