Archaeologists Uncover Rare Beaker Burial Near Stone Henge | Digging For Britain

In this episode of Digging for Britain, they are exploring archeological discoveries in the West of Britain. The team look into strange ritual behaviour at Stonehenge, rediscovering a lost British city after 700 years, as well as uncovering an extremely rare neolithic burial at the entrance of a henge. Matt Williams and Alice Roberts also go behind the scenes at Salisbury Museum showing the extraordinary artefacts regular visitors don't get to see.

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[lynleygilchrist]

Love Dr Roberts! Fantastic program as always ❤

[carolefreeman]

I love watching Professor Alice Roberts documentaries they are always so interesting and insightful. 👏🇨🇦

[gregedmand]

I wish all seasons of Digging for Britain were available on YouTube. There's a couple but no where near the full 11 or more seasons.

[EmbraceTheJourney]

thank you Professor Roberts for another amazing program

[stephenjsmart]

I have allways liked watching time team and enjoy watching digging for Britain great series

[madabouthistory]

was bed time until i seen this notification :} i must watch now .

[chegeny]

It's an excellent series. Hard to believe Digging for Britain first aired in 2010 and that Prof Alice Roberts is nearly 51 years old.. Tempus fugit

[MaxwellMoore-du]

I Love these people who Look back into our past .Though very Careful and dilligent work they are opening and understanding the history.

[lnbjr]

Another fascinating presentation. Everyone associated with this has my gratitude for their assemblage!

[ALIENLARRY]

Excellent show, well done everyone xx

[fabiodeoliveiraribeiro]

I really like the programs narrated by Alice Roberts. Her melodious tone of voice is precious, a true soothing sound that makes me disconnect from all my problems. When she speaks, all real and imaginary conflicts disappear. Sometimes I get drowsy, but that's good.

[pieceofgosa]

On the north-west tower of the national cathedral in Washington DC there is a grotesque in the shape of Darth Vader's head. Try to imagine being an archaeologist & finding that without any kind of historical context :D

[davecordes]

I read about th Beakr people 62 years ago in Enland. Visid Stonehenge thrn and bought a bòok. This is the first mention of them I have heard of them since watching history et al on You Tube. Congrats!

[MikeHunt-cp]

In a thousand years there will be serious academic debate about whether Superman and Batman were real or by robots

[pieceofgosa]

I always baulk slightly at archaeologists use of the term "ritual". I wonder how many of our day-to-day activities would (without the benefit of context) appear to be ritual in nature. What (for example) do we think alien archaeologists from 10, 000 years in the future would make of football stadiums ? Or art galleries ? Or museums ? I think it's very important to draw a line between ritual & religious. The two are not necessarily connected.

[MrGozer]

Rituals are often religious but the term just means something you do in the same way every time because it has meaning to the person doing it. Otherwise humans don't quite have symmetrical behavior that is easily traceable.

[coprolite]

Looks like series 4, episode 1 - from March 2016!

Still relevant - the Amesbury Archer was covered in Prof. Roberts's recent book Ancestors. I just went to look for one of Alice's talks on the subject, and found an hour long lecture that was posted in the past few days:

[hectorpascal]

I see what you did there: not a NEW Stone Henge but old Stonehenge! No fair - clickbait title!🤣 But it's good to see Matthew become such a good presenter.

[tomjenkins]

Rose who found skeleton has enthusiasm and looks to be a host. I assume knowledge too. Let’s get a new series going. Enjoyed the show. Thanks.

[TheFatCottonwood]

At Marden henge could that possibly be a pottery drying room/kiln by any chance? Perhaps a way to finish their beaker style pottery, I envision that as a clever way to dry pottery without turning it black from fire soot. They could extend their pottery making enterprise in winter as well.