A visit to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh includes Russian jewels, a rare Maori box, a priceless football trophy and three paintings by female artists who deserve to be better known.

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Fiona Bruce and the team visit Ham House in the London borough of Richmond. Could an 18th-century robe be the most valuable Chinese treasure ever found on the show?

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At Dyffryn Gardens near Cardiff, treasures include an enormous amber necklace, an Antarctic compass and a penknife with hundreds of utensils.

The team are at Aston Hall in Birmingham, where Fiona meets poet Benjamin Zephaniah and treasures include Asian ceremonial weapons and artwork inspired by the moon landings.

Fiona and the team visit Portchester Castle in Hampshire, where treasures include punk clothing, paintings by 20th-century Indian artists and a rare set of Battle of Britain medals.

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Fiona and the team visit the Ulster Folk Museum near Belfast, where treasures include stained glass, teacups from a luxury ocean liner and an unusual piece of medical history.

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The team are at Woodhorn Museum in Northumberland, a former colliery, where treasures include a gold Rolex from the 1980s and FA Cup medals won by a Newcastle United legend.

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The team return to Ham House in Richmond, where treasures include jewellery found in a compost bag, a Derek Jarman artwork and an Omega watch marking the Apollo-Soyuz space mission.

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The Roadshow visits the Bishop’s Palace in Wells in Somerset, where treasures include a precious ring from Thailand and a plaque from a pub that could be of national importance.

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The team return to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, where finds include a set of traditional Highland dress. Fiona gets a closer look at a plant specimen collected by Charles Darwin.

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The team return to Aston Hall in Birmingham, where treasures include some rare trading beads, memorable items from an Aston Villa legend, and a collection of climbing gear.

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Fiona and the team are at Dyffryn Gardens near Cardiff, where treasures include a ship’s chest from the Empire Windrush, a clock that runs on air and a huge collection of Clarice Cliff.

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Fiona and the team visit the Ulster Folk Museum near Belfast, where treasures include an unusual black opal, some creepy dolls and medals awarded for the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916.

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The Roadshow returns to Woodhorn Museum in Northumberland, a former colliery that tells the story of coal mining and the miners’ way of life in the north east of England.

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The team return to Portchester Castle in Hampshire, where treasures include a Victoria Cross medal, a letter that travelled on the Titanic and a lost poem by Siegfried Sassoon.

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Fiona and the team pay a final visit to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, where finds include a tea set gifted by a Dalai Lama and paintings by a celebrated Korean artist.

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The team return to Wells in Somerset to see some Fabergé jewellery, a plate by Pugin and a guitar left behind in England by a soldier who never returned from the D-Day landings.

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The team returns to Ham House, where treasures include an 18th-century effigy and an Indian Order of Merit medal awarded to a Sikh soldier in the First World War.

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Fiona and the team return to the Ulster Folk Museum in Northern Ireland, where items include a DeLorean car, a stone head dug up in a garden and a carving with links to maritime history.

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Antiques Roadshow is a British television show in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom to appraise antiques brought in by local people. It has been running since 1979. There are also international versions of the programme.

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