Digging for Britain

Sky History

6:30 AM to 7:25 AM

Tuesday 18 August

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Alice Roberts joins archaeologists to explore Central England's past. She explores a dig beneath the runways of RAF Alconbury, which has uncovered a rural Roman site filled with mysteriously placed objects. In Winchester she visits a new housing development where an Anglo-Saxon cemetery has been discovered and a gold pendant has been found in a grave. She also tours a medieval nunnery near Windsor where archaeologists are attempting to learn about the women who lived within the convent