Digging for Britain

8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
Friday 30 January
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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 Northern Ireland HD at 8:00 AM, Friday 30 January. (Subtitles, repeat, sign language, audio description.)
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Alice Roberts
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Tori Herridge
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Stuart Prior
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