Digging for Britain

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Wednesday 21 January
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A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson's Favourite Ship

Season 13 Episode 3 of 6

Featuring an ft slipway in the New Forest where Admiral Nelson's favourite ship was built, an Anglo-Saxon cemetery where a host of well-preserved and rare objects have been found, and finds from Trinity College, Oxford. Plus, a late Roman cemetery that features an intricate bone box and part of a Roman bone flute, and a tangle of delicate Iron Age objects that have to be carefully micro-excavated in Kent

Digging for Britain airs on BBC Two England at 9:00 PM, Wednesday 21 January. (Subtitles, new, audio description.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
Archaeology
News ➝ Current Affairs
Documentary
Alice Roberts
Presenter
Rory Wheeler
Executive Producer
Ian Hunt
Series Producer