Jan 7, 2025 · 59m
The most incredible grave goods ever found on Digging for Britain, a strange Roman sarcophagus filled with plaster and an intriguing medieval coin hoard.


Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.
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Jan 7, 2025 · 59m
The most incredible grave goods ever found on Digging for Britain, a strange Roman sarcophagus filled with plaster and an intriguing medieval coin hoard.
Jan 8, 2025 · 58m
A quarryman makes the discovery of a set of very large footprints, and a chance find reveals a spectacular Roman villa with mosaics and a sauna
Jan 9, 2025 · 58m
Exploring Britain’s islands: a 5,000-year-old Neolithic tomb, an international effort to save a WWI warship, and a Neanderthal hunting ground off Jersey’s coast.
Jan 14, 2025 · 59m
Gold is found at a bishop’s palace, a Roman crime is uncovered, detectorists unearth a staggering bronze age haul, and ancient DNA solves a medieval mystery
Jan 15, 2025 · 58m
In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.
Jan 16, 2025 · 58m
Extraordinary digs from the south - a Romani encampment in the New Forest, a convict’s burial ground, discovery of a civil war mansion and London’s best-preserved Roman cemetery.
Quick answers about this season's release timeline and episode lineup.
Digging for Britain Season 12 premiered on January 7, 2025.
Digging for Britain Season 12 has 6 episodes.
The season opens with Season 12 Episode 1, "Saxon Gold and Buried Coins". It aired on January 7, 2025.
Go to Season 12 Episode 1