Great British History Hunters

Name: Great British History Hunters
Released: 2022-04-27T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary · History

With behind-the-scenes access at the British Museum, this series follows passionate metal detectorists as their incredible, and often valuable, discoveries make their way through the fascinating world of the museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme.

2022 · 46m

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

A collection of Roman Bronzes makes life-changing amounts of money at auction, Mudlarks scour the Thames foreshore for treasures of London's past, and a 3000-year-old gold sun pendant stuns experts when it's discovered in Shropshire.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

The British Museum's team of experts work to uncover and restore one of the biggest coin hoards ever discovered. The race is on to beat thieves to a life-changing discovery, and a ladies-only detecting group break new ground in Shropshire.
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

The experts get to work on a once-in-a-lifetime discovery, a Buckinghamshire dig uncovers an Anglo-Saxon burial that redraws the map of ancient Britain, and military veterans in Lincolnshire unearth a link to their Roman counterparts.
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

British Museum's team of treasure experts are stunned when prehistoric Cumbrian gold is almost thrown away, coin hoards are unearthed in Suffolk and Somerset, and Mudlarks on the Thames hover their way to the Capital's treasure.