Digging Up Britain's Past
Archaeologists conduct a dig at Auckland Castle in Co Durham, which 700 years ago was home to a group of power-crazed bishops who behaved more like warriors than religious leaders. The experts head to Dirleton Castle in East Lothian to reveal the role one of the men played in defending England from William Wallace's army, and also try their hands at the art of stained glass-making, and fire a working trebuchet - the ultimate medieval weapon of war
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Wednesday 10 December
The team seeks artefacts from the country's first superhighway - the Bridgewater Canal - that linked the coal mines of Worsley with Manchester and powered the Industrial Revolution
Raksha Dave and Alex Langlands search for the remains of a First World War stable at Catterick Garrison, where thousands of horses would have been housed
Thursday 11 December
Saturday 13 December
Archaeologists conduct a dig at Auckland Castle in Co Durham, which 700 years ago was home to a group of power-crazed bishops who behaved more like warriors than religious leaders
Raksha Dave and Alex Langlands search for the remains of a First World War stable at Catterick Garrison, where thousands of horses would have been housed
Sunday 14 December
Saturday 20 December
Experts seek a lost garden planted in 1592 as part of a three-day party commemorating the defeat of the Spanish Armada, an event attended by Elizabeth I
Raksha Dave and Alex Langlands join a team from Reading University at a site in Silchester, near Reading, as they examine one of the best-preserved Roman sites in Britain
The history of HMS Invincible, a ship that was captured from the French in 1747 and helped transform the Royal Navy with the lessons it taught about organisation and ship design
Sunday 21 December
Archaeologists conduct a dig at Auckland Castle in Co Durham, which 700 years ago was home to a group of power-crazed bishops who behaved more like warriors than religious leaders
The team seeks artefacts from the country's first superhighway - the Bridgewater Canal - that linked the coal mines of Worsley with Manchester and powered the Industrial Revolution
Raksha Dave and Alex Langlands search for the remains of a First World War stable at Catterick Garrison, where thousands of horses would have been housed