Shoreline Detectives
TV Show · Documentary

Every day, on a sandy beach or a rocky foreshore, fascinating evidence of British history appears and disappears as the tide rolls in and rolls out again. Dr. Tori Herridge and her crack team of archaeologists explore sea beds and sand banks to discover all the bits of history found on Britain's shoreline, including shipwrecks, prehistoric stone forts, and medieval villages.

2017 · 44m
Starring Tori Herridge, Alex Langlands

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Northumberland
    Tori and Alex explore the coastal archaeology of Northumberland. They investigate the tragic story of a French fishing trawler, wrecked in 1913, and they discover the ancient community that thrived in the middle ages in one of the northeast's top tourist destinations.
    44m
  • EPISODE 2
    Merseyside
    Tori and Alex explore the coastal archaeology of Merseyside. They investigate a beach full of building rubble from WWII, track down Liverpool's own version of the Whisky Galore story, and find evidence of people and animals dating back 7000 years.
    44m
  • EPISODE 3
    Essex
    Tori and Alex explore the coastal archaeology of Essex. They investigate the earthwork remains of a fort dating to the time when Henry VIII took England out of the European Catholic union. They pay their respects to some Thames sailing barges, now sunk in estuary mud, but once the glory of the east coast, and they find a First World War German U-boat stranded in a tiny creek.
    44m
  • EPISODE 1
    East Sussex
    In East Sussex, Tori and the team explore the wreck of a ship that went down in the 1740s, discover a prehistoric well shaft, and investigate the tale of a harbor that took 63 years to build, but only worked for four months.
    45m
  • EPISODE 2
    Dorset
    Tori and the team visit Dorset where they reveal the story of the world's first aircraft carriers, they discover how this coastline played a vital role in D Day, and they search for a unique and huge Iron Age monument that can only be seen, sometimes, for a few hours a year.
    44m
  • EPISODE 3
    Clyde
    In Glasgow, Tori explores the river Clyde, finding a strange vessel on the foreshore that was instrumental in helping to create the city. She discovers a wall that changed the city forever, and an intriguing wooden structure that gives a tantalizing glimpse into the world as it was on the River Clyde 2000 years ago.
    45m

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Cast & Crew

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    Tori Herridge
    Host
  • Alex Langlands
    Host

About

Shoreline Detectives

Documentary

Every day, on a sandy beach or a rocky foreshore, fascinating evidence of British history appears and disappears as the tide rolls in and rolls out again. Dr. Tori Herridge and her crack team of archaeologists explore sea beds and sand banks to discover all the bits of history found on Britain's shoreline, including shipwrecks, prehistoric stone forts, and medieval villages.

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MagellanTV
Released
2017
Rated
TV-14

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English (United States) (CC)

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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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