Digging up Britain: Ten discoveries, a million years of history

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I don't often give 5 stars - I save it for the most exceptional books I read, and this is one that I'll be coming back to and dipping into in the future. It is good to see that LSBUD goes from strength-to-strength in its coverage of almost 100 asset owners. And after giving me episodes that I'd easily rate an 8 or a 9, they give me talk shows and reality shows, neither of which I watch because I consider them to be zeroes. Dr Alice Roberts visits archaeological excavations around the UK, linking together the results of digs and investigations the length and breadth of the country to build up a picture of the year in British archaeology. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Mike Pitts reviews ten significant archaeological sites in Britain, considering the latest (as of 2019) analyses of the artifacts and remains found. c) The choice of what to explain and what not to explain - and how best to do that (see 2, above) - I feel like Mr. Journeying was instinctive, and inhumanities – aggression, war, despotism – arose when the virtue and dignity of travel were suppressed. The digs were interesting, the conclusions neither sensationalized nor presented as fact with too little evidence.These discoveries illuminate Britain’s ever-shifting history that we now know includes an increasingly diverse array of cultures and customs. She contributed in her own small way to saving the Staffordshire Hoard for the nation and blogs at www. Digging Up Britain consists of a series of ten archaeological case studies from sites shedding light on the earliest (known) occupation of these islands to the times of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking.

But then, starting with the third series, it looks like the producers decided they didn't want to make anything so staid as perhaps the best archaeology series on English-speaking television ever. What is slowly coming into focus, through analysis of these ten sites and many others, is a completely different picture. We'll share all of the questions and find *some* of the answers, as we join the teams in the field, Digging for Britain. When I skipped to the fourth series to see if they later got their heads back on straight, I discovered that they did change course, but not to their original format.

These may include creased cover, inscriptions or small amounts of writing, fanned edge, ripped or tatty dustjacket, and other signs of being read. All this is changing what we know about Britain’s early history, and the way we think about ourselves. The first series consisted of four episodes, initially broadcast on BBC Two in August and September 2010.