Name: Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets
Released: 2020-01-11T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Raksha Dave, Carla Valentine, Tori Herridge

TV Show · Documentary · History

Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together the lives behind unearthed bones to find out their stories. Once a skeleton has been recorded, the bones immediately begin to reveal their mysteries, opening up a secret history of Britain.

2020 · 44m

Starring Raksha Dave, Carla Valentine, Tori Herridge

Director Michael Waterhouse, Jane Magowan

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Five bodies dating from the Bronze Age are found in a deep pit on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. One of them is an old woman, who has been manipulated into a position where she is pointing at something. The team try to find out at what and why.

44 min
EPISODE 2

Stoke Quay, Ipswich

Tori investigates the remains of children and teenagers found in the car park of the Victoria Gate shopping centre in Leeds.

44 min
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

The remains of over 100 young Anglo-Saxon men are found under a planned car park in Hampshire. Tori and the scientists investigate why they were denied a Christian interment and buried so remotely.

44 min
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

Tori Herridge and the team examine a stash of bones beneath a Leeds shopping arcade as they piece together the lives of children from the industrial revolution.

44 min
EPISODE 1

Episode 2

The team visit a long-forgotten cemetery in Ipswich where 1,400 bodies reveal signs of hard labour, disease, murder and possibly the country's first post-mortem.

45 min
EPISODE 2

Beaker, Caithness, Scotland

The team investigate the remains of a young woman found during routine road works in Scotland. She lived and died in the early Bronze Age, and in her grave are clues to who she might have been, including a finely made beaker.

44 min