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Last broadcast:30/03/2013 at 11:00

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Meet the Ancestors

Julian Richards joins archaeologists in Cheshire as they excavate a long-lost chapel.

March 2013

3. Living with the Ancestors

A couple discovers a 5th century graveyard when they try to build a garage.

4. The Tomb that Time Forgot

Julian Richards joins a team of archaeologists investigating a burial chamber in Orkney.

3. The Ultimate Sacrifice

Investigates the skeletons of a woman and three children at a Stone Age temple in Dorset.

2. At the Sign of the Eagle

Follows an excavation team as they uncover a rare find in a fourth-century Roman cemetery.
February 2013

1. Warrior

Julian Richards visits a team working on an Anglo-Saxon graveyard in Suffolk.

6. A Family Plot

Julian Richards helps investigate a 19th century vault in the centre of Coventry.

5. Bones in the Barnyard

Julian Richards joins a team examining the remains of two crouch burials in Bleadon.

4. The Rose Garden Mystery

Julian Richards investigates a coffin dug up in a rose bed at Malmesbury Abbey.
January 2013

3. Friends, Romans or Countrymen?

Julian Richards joins a team excavating a stone coffin from a building site in Bristol.

2. The Lady of the Sands

Julian Richards visits a suspected early Christian burial site on the coast in Donegal.

1. The Wolf Den

Potholers in the Yorkshire Dales stumble upon the remains of human burials.
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