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January 7, 2026

Series 13

Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park

01. Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park

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.

59min
January 7, 2026
Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig

02. Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig

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.

59min
January 14, 2026
A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship

03. A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship

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

59min
January 21, 2026
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England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky

04. England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky

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.

58min
Medieval Murder and Roman Pets

05. Medieval Murder and Roman Pets

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.

59min
A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing Well

06. A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing Well

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.

58min