Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets

Victoria Herridge and a team of scientists piece together the lives behind unearthed bones to find out their stories.

2020 HD 45min English

Raksha Dave Carla Valentine Tori Herridge

Documentary History

british history archeology burial skeleton forensic archaeology

S1E1 - Episode 1 2020-01-11

Five Bronze Age bodies have been found in a deep pit in Kent. One of them, an old woman, has been manipulated into a position where she is pointing at something. But at what? And why?

S1E2 - Episode 2 2020-01-18

Tori and the team examine a stash of bones beneath an upmarket shopping arcade in Leeds, as they piece together the challenging lives of children from the industrial revolution.

S1E3 - Episode 3 2020-01-25

The remains of over 100 young Anglo-Saxon men are found under a planned car park in Hampshire. Why were they denied a Christian interment and buried so remotely?

S2E1 - Episode 1 2020-09-26

The team visit a long-forgotten cemetery in Ipswich, where 1400 bodies reveal signs of hard labour, disease, murder, and possibly the countrys first post-mortem.

S2E2 - Episode 2 2020-10-03

Roadworks on the A9 in Scotland uncover the remains of a young woman who lived and died in the early Bronze Age. Was she one of the so-called Beaker People?

S2E3 - Episode 3 2020-10-10

Tucked away in a Runcorn industrial park is Europes most excavated monastic site. It reveals a story of medieval knights, brutal murder and ancient disease.

S2E4 - Episode 4 2020-10-17

A Wiltshire building site unearths eight Roman cemeteries and the remains of a man beheaded after burial. Who did this, and why? Tori and the team investigate.

S2E5 - Episode 5 2020-10-24

Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together the story behind the discovery of 13 bodies with the skulls cut open in a 19th-century Bristol graveyard. The investigation uncovers a link to a local hospital, a celebrated surgeon, and the crime of bodysnatching.

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