Digging for Britain

Iraqi troops defended Britain from the Barbarians, a discovered melting pot of cultures in a cemetery on Hadrian's Wall.

Temple complex to match Skara Brae; Neolithic burial place suggesting mass murder in Oxfordshire.

In Northumbria, skeletons tell juxtaposed tales of violent death and tenderness. Archeologists curate grave goods in an amazing community project.

Excavating and restoring a British naval find; mystery surrounds a forgotten Tudor palace; Shakespeare's first theater.

Roman Britain gives up some of its mysteries as Professor Roberts investigates the remains of 97 babies found near the Thames River, visits a newly discovered town in rural Devon, and examines a cult figure that has been buried for more than one and a half millennia beneath a Roman fort.

Roberts travels back to Britain during the time of the Vikings: to their earliest settlements in the Outer Hebrides, to excavations underway at their capital of York, and to their final stronghold in the remote Orkney Islands. She takes a look at some of the most celebrated finds, including the carved-ivory Lewis Chessmen.