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Saxon Gold and Buried Coins

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

Alice travels through the east of Britain to the area’s most exciting archaeological digs.

She joins archaeologists digging an astonishing Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural Kent. Every grave is filled with exceptionally well-preserved and rare objects, including a complete Anglo-Saxon sword.

Archaeologists are working on one of the largest archaeological digs in the country at the construction site of the Sizewell-C nuclear power station in Suffolk. The team unearth a mysterious lump of lead, filled with hundreds of early medieval silver coins.

In Norfolk, Alice joins a dig in the grounds of a Roman villa in Norton. The most exceptional find is a full military horse burial, which suggests this villa on the edge of Iceni territory may have belonged to a retired Roman veteran.

Just outside of Peterborough, archaeologists have unearthed one of the most unusual burials of the year - an enormous Roman stone coffin, filled with white plaster. And a team of volunteer divers are in a race against time to record and recover everything from the historically important shipwreck of β€˜The London’ before it erodes and gets washed away.

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59 minutes

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Tue 7 Jan 2025 20:00

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Role Contributor
Presenter Alice Roberts
Editor Ian Strang
Producer Terry Black
Producer Louise Ord
Executive Producer Alexander Gardiner
Executive Producer Rory Wheeler
Executive Producer Edward Hart
Series Producer Dominic Ozanne
Production Company Rare TV

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