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Mon 31
South Shields — The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden
Hugh Dennis and the archaeologists set out to uncover evidence of a secret military base on the clifftops of South Shields, hopping to become the first to put these important pieces of wartime history on the map
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Mon 31
Maidstone, Kent — The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden
Hugh Dennis and a team of archaeologists and historians descend on a suburban road in Kent where they believe a Roman settlement is hidden beneath the back gardens. With just one week to discover the history that may lie below the terraced houses of Florence Road, Maidstone, Hugh goes door-to-door to recruit willing locals to help Richard Taylor, Chloe Duckworth and Simon Elliott dig up their gardens in the search for remains
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Mon 31
A Roman Fort in Falkirk — The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden
Hugh Dennis excavates back gardens around Britain, uncovering the lost history buried beneath lawns and flower beds. He is joined by experts Chloe Duckworth, Richard Taylor and Natasha Bilson to uncover a Roman fort connected to the Antonine Wall, buried beneath the back gardens of the quiet suburban streets of Falkirk in central Scotland
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Mon 7
Prehistoric Roundhouses in Stretton — The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden
Hugh Dennis and the team take on their first prehistoric dig as they try to unearth ancient roundhouses in the village of Stretton in Staffordshire. Their mission is to work out just how far back in time the settlement dates - is it Bronze Age, Iron Age or from the early Romano British period? Nobody has ever excavated the site before, and for the first time the team dig up a school playing field
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Mon 7
A Victorian Prison in Devizes — The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden
The archaeologists uncover a 19th-century prison with a difference in Wiltshire. Devizes House of Corrections was one of the first panopticon style prisons built in the UK, with its all-seeing central guards' tower which allowed just a handful of guards to monitor and control the lives of hundreds of prisoners. The team want to uncover the prison's lost structures, reveal the secrets of what went on behind its walls and discover just how secure and inescapable it really was
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Mon 7
Vanished Buildings of Beningbrough Hall — The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden
Hugh Dennis and the team take on their biggest and poshest back garden ever when they dig up the gardens of Beningbrough Hall, a stately home in Yorkshire. They are looking for the remains of a vanished building, the only evidence of which lies in a painting - but did the building ever exist or was it just a flight of fancy?
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Mon 14
A Norman Castle in West Derby — The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden
Hugh Dennis and the team search for the remains of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle in the Liverpool suburb of West Derby. Over 900 years ago this impressive fortress would have been home to Norman lords, but now it is just a memory, with only the local street names hinting at its existence
More Details for The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden, Mon 14, 3:00 am
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