Digging for Britain

BBC Two Wales

7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Friday 10 January

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Alice Roberts joins a team of archaeologists digging in Orkney, investigating a tomb as old as the great pyramids in Egypt. The team reveal burial chambers crammed full of whole skeletons, buried nearly 5,000 years ago. Cameras also follow a team of archaeologists on the Shetland Islands, who are excavating a rocky headland jutting out into the sea, which has traces of an ancient settlement at the top