Dr Alice Roberts follows years of groundbreaking British archaeology, combining on-site visits that capture each discovery as it happens with CGI and lab-based investigations that bring history to life.

We go behind the scenes of the conservation labs at the Roman fort of Vindolanda, head to the 'Egypt of the North,' in Orkney, where archeologists rescue a Neolithic tomb before it gets washed away, travel to Norway on the hunt for a lost WWII Reconnaissance Spitfire to piece together the story of its brave pilot, and end at a dig where archeologists are digging up the remains of what was the largest jail in Georgian England.

From the series Digging for Britain.