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13 seasons · 59 eps

Season 13

S13 · E1 59 min

Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park Episode 1

Wubly rating 7.2 · You

Featuring visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, one of the largest Roman cemeteries ever found in Britain, Bradford’s first Muslim burial, more finds in Carlisle from a Roman bathhouse, and from the 1970s, Scotland’s first skatepark.

S13 · E2 59 min

Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig Episode 2

Wubly rating 7.8 · You

Featuring two incredibly rare finds from an Iron Age hoard, a look inside the UK’s largest and most complex dig in a generation, an Iron Age site perched on the very edge of the White Cliffs of Dover, and the earliest example of an artist’s signature from Roman Britain.

S13 · E3 59 min

A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship Episode 3

Wubly rating 7.4 · You

Rare Anglo-Saxon swords, a mysterious and macabre Roman bone box and a cross-continental investigation into Admiral Nelson’s favourite ship.

S13 · E4 59 min

England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky Episode 4

Wubly rating 7.4 · You

The lost estate of Harold Godwinson, last Anglo-Saxon king of England, a completely intact 4,000-year-old cremation vessel and an unprecedented Roman whetstone factory.

S13 · E5 59 min

Medieval Murder and Roman Pets Episode 5

Wubly rating 7.4 · You

Featuring a vast first-century Roman compound, the warhorses that changed the course of history, a medieval murder mystery, the thriving farmstead belonging to Isaac Newton's mother, thousands of animal bones from a Roman farm, and a 300-million-year-old forest that built the modern world.

S13 · E6 59 min

A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing Well Episode 6

Wubly rating 7.4 · You

Tantalising clues to the ancient origin story of St Michael’s Mount, rare Roman cavalry swords with hidden secrets and a wishing well of coins at a promontory fort in Pembrokeshire.

6 episodes in Season 13

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