Name: Bone Detectives
Released: 2020-01-11T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Tori Herridge

Bone Detectives

Documentary 2020

Available on Acorn TV, Prime Video

Victoria Gate, Leeds S2, E1: Beneath an upmarket shopping arcade in Leeds city center, archaeologists discovered the remains of children and teenagers. Tori Herridge and her team learn how their broken bones reveal what life was like for the children of the Industrial Revolution.

Documentary 2020

Starring Tori Herridge

EPISODE 3

Weyhill, Hampshire

The jumbled remains of more than 100 Anglo-Saxon men were denied Christian burial and thrown carelessly into graves. Who were they, and why were they buried this way?
EPISODE 5

Bristol

In what appeared to be an ordinary 19th-century Bristol graveyard, archaeologists discovered the bodies of 13 people whose skulls had been cut open. Tori Herridge leads an investigation to find out why and uncovers a link to a Bristol hospital, a celebrated surgeon, and body-snatching.
EPISODE 6

Amesbury, Wiltshire

One after another, archaeologists reveal eight Roman cemeteries on the site of a planned housing estate near Amesbury in Wiltshire. One grave seems to have been disturbed. A middle-aged man has been stabbed and beheaded after his burial. Who did this, and why? Tori and the team investigate.
EPISODE 7

Beak, Caithness, Scotland

During routine roadworks on the A9 in the far north of Scotland, the remains of a young woman are found. She lived and died in the Early Bronze Age. In her graves are clues to who she might have been, including a finely made beaker. Does she belong to the so-called Beaker People, who migrated from Europe to Britain over 4,000 years ago?
EPISODE 8

Norton Priory, Cheshire

Tucked away in a corner of a Runcorn industrial park is the most-excavated monastic site in Europe. An investigation into the bones of the people buried there reveals a story of medieval knights, brutal murder, and generations of people afflicted by an ancient disease.
EPISODE 1

Victoria Gate, Leeds

Beneath an upmarket shopping arcade in Leeds city center, archaeologists discovered the remains of children and teenagers. Tori Herridge and her team learn how their broken bones reveal what life was like for the children of the Industrial Revolution.

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Bone Detectives

DOCUMENTARY

There are stories hidden in bones—tales of battles, disease, trades, and tragedies from long ago that, with modern scientific analysis, begin to reveal their mysteries. In this docuseries, Tori Herridge and her team attempt to piece together the lives behind the bones uncovered by archaeologists across the UK, theorizing what happened to these people and how they came to be where they were found.

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Studio: Acorn TV
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020

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Primary: English (United Kingdom) (AAC)

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: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.

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