Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited
Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited: Season 1

Air Date

May 1, 2013

Episodes

4 episodes

Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited

Season 1

Episodes

1. Pagans of Roman Britain

May 1, 2013
59 min

Archaeologist Julian Richards returns to some of his most important digs. New science on two rich burials from late Roman Britain reveals unexpected secrets.

2. Families of the Stone Age

May 8, 2013
59 min

Julian Richards returns to the excavation of two burials from the Stone Age - the grave of an entire Neolithic family in Dorset and a tomb on Orkney that is helping to reveal some strange and unexpected burial rites from over 5,000 years ago.

3. Sacred Women of the Iron Age

May 15, 2013
59 min

Archaeologist Julian Richards has the latest on two very different burials of Iron Age women and a brand new discovery in a rare chariot burial.

4. The First Anglo-Saxons

May 22, 2013
59 min

Julian Richards returns to the excavation of two early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries to explore the mystery of the Anglo-Saxon invasions that began after the fall of the Roman Empire. In particular, the rich burial of a warrior and his horse offers up fresh clues to some of the very first pioneers.