Digging for Britain
North
Season 8 Episode 2 of 4
In Northern Ireland, the graveyard of a Victorian workhouse sheds light on one of the most traumatic periods of modern Irish history, the Great Famine of 1845. A team from Sheffield University want to understand the lives of people who occupied a village near the famous caves at Cresswell Crags in Nottinghamshire, and near Lincoln, a revisit to an Anglo Saxon site near proves rewarding
Digging for Britain airs on Sky History 2 at 4:00 PM, Saturday 16 November.
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
Archaeology
News ➝ Current Affairs
Documentary
Alice Roberts
Presenter
Naoise Mac Sweeney
Reporter
Eamon Hardy
Executive Producer