Shoreline Detectives: Ancient Ships, Forts, and Villages

Tori Herridge and Alex Langlands explore the coastal archaeology of Northumberland, discovering an ancient community that thrived in one of the northeast's top tourist destinations.

In Merseyside, the team explores a beach full of building rubble leftover from WWII and find evidence of people and animals dating back 7,000 years.

In Essex, the earthwork remains of a fort dating back to the time when Henry VII took England out of the European Catholic union is discovered.

In East Sussex, Tori and the team explore a shipwreck from the 1740s; discover a prehistoric well shaft; investigate a harbour that took 63 years to build but only worked for four months.

Tori and the team discover how the Dorset coastline played a vital role in D-Day; reveal the story of the world's first aircraft carriers; search for a huge Iron Age monument that can only be seen, sometimes, for a few hours a year.

Along Glasgow's River Clyde, Tori finds a strange vessel that played an instrumental part in creating the city; Tori examines a wooden structure that gives a tantalising glimpse into what life was like there 2,000 years ago.