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.
- 2020-2020
- 2 seasons
- Documentary
Victoria Herridge and a team of scientists piece together the lives behind unearthed bones to find out their stories.
Season 2 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2020
Episode 1
Ipswich
47 mins
The programme that pieces together the lives behind unearthed bones returns. The team visit a long-forgotten cemetery in Ipswich, where 1400 bodies reveal signs of hard labour, disease, murder, and possibly the country's first post-mortem.
Episode 2
Episode #2.2
47 mins
Roadworks on the A9 road in Caithness, 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?
Episode 3
Episode #2.3
47 mins
Tucked away in an industrial estate in Runcorn, Cheshire is Europe's most excavated monastic site. It reveals a story of medieval knights, brutal murder and ancient disease.
Episode 4
Episode #2.4
47 mins
A building site in Wiltshire uncovers eight Roman cemeteries and the remains of a man beheaded after burial. Who did this, and why? Tori and the team investigate.
Episode 5
Episode #2.5
47 mins
In a Bristol graveyard, the team investigate the grisly discovery of sliced-open human skulls and explore their connection with a local hospital, a celebrated surgeon, and the crime of body-snatching