Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets
Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets: Season 2

Air Date

September 26, 2020

Episodes

5 episodes

Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets

Season 2

Episodes

1. Episode 1

September 26, 2020
45 min

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

October 3, 2020
45 min

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

October 10, 2020
45 min

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

October 17, 2020
45 min

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

October 24, 2020
45 min

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.