Digging for Britain
England's Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky
Season 13 Episode 4 of 6
Featuring the lost estate of the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson, a hilltop fort in Fife with an unprecedented wealth of discoveries linked to the Picts. Also, the medieval ruins of Lindores Abbey, how Gloucester Museum is dealing with a nationwide archaeological finds storage crisis, and a look at a completely intact 4,000-year-old cremation vessel. Plus, an unprecedented Roman whetstone factory
Digging for Britain airs on BBC Two HD at 6:25 PM, Saturday 31 January. (Subtitles, repeat, audio description.)
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Alice Roberts
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Tori Herridge
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