The Bone Detectives

In a deep pit on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, five bodies dating from the Bronze Age are found. Among them is an old woman positioned so she appears to be pointing at something. But at what? And why?

Hard manual labour, disease, murder and what might be the first post-mortem dissection in England. Over 1,400 bodies in a long-forgotten cemetery in Ipswich are examined by Tori Herridge and her team.

The jumbled remains of over 100 young men are found on the site of a proposed car park outside Andover in Hampshire. The first dating tests reveal that they are Anglo-Saxons denied their burial rites.

Beneath an upmarket shopping arcade in Leeds city centre, archaeologists discovered the remains of children and teenagers.

In what appeared to be an ordinary 19th-century Bristol graveyard, archaeologists discovered the bodies of 13 people whose skulls had been cut open.

One after another, archaeologists reveal eight Roman cemeteries on the site of a planned housing estate near Amesbury in Wiltshire.

During routine roadworks on the A9 in the far north of Scotland, the remains of a young early Bronze Age woman are found. In her grave are clues to who she might have been.

Tucked away in a corner of a Runcorn industrial park is the most excavated monastic site in Europe. Stories of medieval knights, brutal murder and ancient diseases are revealed.