Digging for Britain

Archaeologists in the East are unearthing Roman letters that reveal what London was like 2000 years ago, an East India ship packed with silver, and the first evidence of Caesar in Britain.

A secret location in the Cotswolds gives up a very precious and fragile artifact; at the site of Shaftesbury Abbey, Dr Naoise MacSweeney joins archaeologist Julian Richards in his hunt for the missing cloister.

The remains of a Tudor house in Leicestershire were thought to be the childhood home of England's forgotten queen, Lady Jane Grey; in Northern Ireland, the graveyard of a Victorian workhouse sheds new light on the Great Famine of 1845.

How a lobster led archaeologists to the discovery of an 8000-year-old neolithic underwater settlement; location reporter Naoise Mac Sweeney visits a modern construction site as it gives up the secrets of an Elizabethan playhouse.

Dr. Alice Roberts follows an entire year of British archaeology.

The south of England offers rich pickings, including the earliest money made in Britain and a massive haul of Roman treasure that brings to life the fall of the empire in Britain.