The Great British Dig: History In Your Garden
Hugh Dennis and a team of expert archaeologists excavate back gardens around Britain, in an attempt to uncover the lost history buried beneath our lawns and flower beds
Hugh Dennis and the team are in Odiham, Hampshire, searching for the house of Sir Frances Walsingham, the head of Elizabeth I's Secret Service. It is the first time the site has ever been dug, so with very little to go on, our team want to locate the house, work out its size and scale, and what Walsingham may have used it for. As part of the investigation, Hugh turns his hand to spy craft as he learns how Walsingham used to break codes.
The team search for a lost Roman fort that was built along the Antonine Wall.
The team search for prehistoric roundhouses in the village of Stretton and try to determine when people first made the village their home.
The team search for a revolutionary 19th-century panopticon prison.
Can Hugh and the team find the remains of a vanished building in the gardens of the Georgian stately home Beningbrough Hall?
Hugh and the team search for the remains of a Norman motte and bailey castle in the suburb of West Derby in Liverpool and uncover all kinds of finds in the residents' gardens.
Hugh and the team attempt to uncover a Roman fort, connected to Hadrian's Wall, that's buried beneath the back gardens of the quiet suburban streets of Benwell in Newcastle
Hugh and the team attempt to uncover a Viking burial ground hidden beneath Masham in North Yorkshire, to shed light on the lives of the Anglo-Saxons laid to rest there
Hugh and the team unearth William the Conqueror's lost priory hidden beneath Lenton in Nottingham, and begin to draw a bigger picture of the landscape during the Domesday Book era
Hugh and the team attempt to uncover a secret World War military base on the clifftops of South Shields and set out to become the first people to put these pieces of military history on the map
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| Language | English |
| Release | 2021-02-17 |
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