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Series 12: 1. Saxon Gold and Buried Coins
Alice travels through the east of Britain to the area’s most exciting archaeological digs.\n\nShe joins archaeologists digging an astonishing Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural Kent. Every grave is filled with exceptionally well-preserved and rare objects, including a complete Anglo-Saxon sword. \n\nArchaeologists are working on one of the largest archaeological digs in the country at the construction site of the Sizewell-C nuclear power station in Suffolk. The team unearth a mysterious lump of lead, filled with hundreds of early medieval silver coins.\n\nIn Norfolk, Alice joins a dig in the grounds of a Roman villa in Norton. The most exceptional find is a full military horse burial, which suggests this villa on the edge of Iceni territory may have belonged to a retired Roman veteran.\n\nJust outside of Peterborough, archaeologists have unearthed one of the most unusual burials of the year - an enormous Roman stone coffin, filled with white plaster. And a team of volunteer divers are in a race against time to record and recover everything from the historically important shipwreck of ‘The London’ before it erodes and gets washed away.
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Series 12: 1. Saxon Gold And Buried Coins
Alice travels through the east of Britain to the area’s most exciting archaeological digs.\n\nShe joins archaeologists digging an astonishing Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural ...
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BBC 4
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Series 10: 5. Roman Mosaics And Ancient Weapons
Travelling east, Alice discovers a Roman barn conversion, unearths a Tudor fort and finds intricately carved 10,000-year-old weapons.
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Series 10: 4. Mystery Shipwreck And A Roman Army Camp
Alice Roberts reveals a Dutch ship sunk by the English, a Cornish Roman fort and a 5,000-year-old Neolithic monument.
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Series 11: 6. Forgotten Fortresses And Lost Villages
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Series 11: 5. 3000-year-old Shoes And Giant Axeheads
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Series 11: 4. A Roman Mystery And Waterloo’s Disappearing Dead
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