Digging For Britain.S11E04.A Roman Mystery and Waterloo’s Disappearing Dead (2024, Documentary)

Alice Roberts reveals the most fascinating archaeological finds this year in the east of England: a Roman dodecahedron, the secrets of Boudicca’s hill fort and Waterloo’s disappearing dead.

Eastern England
Sites and archaeology featured:
The Ermine Street Roman road in Bracebridge Heath on the outskirts of Lincoln (project officer Kelly Sinclair)
Early medieval burials in the Lincolnshire Wolds, Lincolnshire (osteoarchaeologist Jacqueline McKinley, osteologist Ceri Boston)
Warham Camp Iron Age hillfort (director of the excavation Andrew Hutcheson, additional informations Matthew Brudenell)
Roman dodecahedron and pottery from Norton Disney (director of the excavation Richard Parker, later in the tent Lorena Hitchens)
Ruins of the Tudor Elsyng Palace in the grounds of Forty Hall manor house in Enfield, North London (archaeologist John Pinchbeck, director of the excavation Martin Dearne)
Building records of Elsyng Palace (reporting Onyeka Nubia)
Search dig for a mass burial site in the grounds of Hougoumont farm near Waterloo, Belgium (project lead Stuart Eve, additional information Tony Pollard)