Digging for Britain

BBC Two England

8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Tuesday 22 July

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Alice Roberts visits the south of England, discovering Britain's oldest shoe through a popular form of archaeology - mud larking. While in Kent, Alice visits a dig where one of the largest and oldest stone hand axes in the UK has been uncovered. Another archaeological dig reveals Henry V's lost shipyard on the south coast, and in Dover, Alice learns about top-secret Second World War defences from Jon Barker as he investigates the formerly classified weapons as well as the site where they were found at