Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets

Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets

Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together life stories behind unearthed bones

Documentary

Seasons

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2020-01-11

Five Bronze Age bodies have been found in a deep pit in Kent. One of them, an old woman, has been manipulated into a position where she is pointing at something. But at what? And why?

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2020-01-18

Tori and the team examine a stash of bones beneath an upmarket shopping arcade in Leeds, as they piece together the challenging lives of children from the industrial revolution.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2020-01-25

The remains of over 100 young Anglo-Saxon men are found under a planned car park in Hampshire. Why were they denied a Christian interment and buried so remotely?

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 2020-09-26

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.

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 2020-10-03

Roadworks on the A9 in 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?

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 2020-10-10

Tucked away in a Runcorn industrial park is Europe's most excavated monastic site. It reveals a story of medieval knights, brutal murder and ancient disease.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2020-10-17

A Wiltshire building site unearths eight Roman cemeteries and the remains of a man beheaded after burial. Who did this, and why? Tori and the team investigate.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 2020-10-24

Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together the story behind the discovery of 13 bodies with the skulls cut open in a 19th-century Bristol graveyard. The investigation uncovers a link to a local hospital, a celebrated surgeon, and the crime of bodysnatching.

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Rating

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Release Date

2020-01-11

Episodes

8 (2 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine

Herself - Mortuary Technician

Raksha Dave

Raksha Dave

Herself - Archaeologist

Tori Herridge

Tori Herridge

Herself - Presenter

Production Companies

Tern TV

Tern TV