Digging For Britain | Series 13 Preview (BBC Two)

During six exciting episodes, Professor Alice Roberts and her team of experts uncover some of the most remarkable finds the series has ever featured. Episode one sees Alice Roberts travel through the East of Britain to the area’s most exciting archaeological digs.

Episode 1: Featuring visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, one of the largest Roman cemeteries ever found in Britain, Bradford’s first Muslim burial, more finds in Carlisle from a Roman bathhouse, and from the 1970s, Scotland’s first skatepark.

Episode 2: Featuring two incredibly rare finds from an Iron Age hoard, a look inside the UK’s largest and most complex dig in a generation, an Iron Age site perched on the very edge of the White Cliffs of Dover, and the earliest example of an artist’s signature from Roman Britain.

Episode 3: Featuring an 18th-century 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 fascinating finds from Trinity College, Oxford. Plus a remarkable 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.

Episode 4: 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, the medieval ruins of Lindores Abbey, how Gloucester Museum is dealing with a nationwide archaeological finds storage crisis, a completely intact 4,000-year-old cremation vessel and an unprecedented Roman whetstone factory.

Episode 5: Featuring a vast first-century Roman compound, the warhorses that changed the course of history, a medieval murder mystery, the thriving farmstead belonging to Isaac Newton's mother, thousands of animal bones from a Roman farm, and a 300-million-year-old forest that built the modern world.

Episode 6: Professor Alice Roberts returns to uncover fresh archaeological treasures and discoveries.

Digging For Britain returns Wednesday 7th January at 9pm on BBC Two.