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The Best Episodes of Digging for Britain Season 13

Every episode of Digging for Britain Season 13 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Digging for Britain Season 13!

Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Digging for Britain Season 13 Episode 1 - Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park
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    #1 - Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park

    S13:E1

    Featuring visceral evidence of a bloody massacre in the Scottish Highlands, one of the largest Roman cemeteries ever found in Britain, Bradford’s first Muslim burial, more finds in Carlisle from a Roman bathhouse, and from the 1970s, Scotland’s first skatepark.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Digging for Britain Season 13 Episode 2 - Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig
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    #2 - Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig

    S13:E2

    Featuring two incredibly rare finds from an Iron Age hoard, a look inside the UK’s largest and most complex dig in a generation, an Iron Age site perched on the very edge of the White Cliffs of Dover, and the earliest example of an artist’s signature from Roman Britain.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Digging for Britain Season 13 Episode 3 - A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship
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    #3 - A Mysterious Bone Box and Admiral Nelson’s Favourite Ship

    S13:E3

    Rare Anglo-Saxon swords, a mysterious and macabre Roman bone box and a cross-continental investigation into Admiral Nelson’s favourite ship.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Digging for Britain Season 13 Episode 4 - England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky
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    #4 - England’s Last Anglo-Saxon King and Scotland's First Whisky

    S13:E4

    The lost estate of Harold Godwinson, last Anglo-Saxon king of England, a completely intact 4,000-year-old cremation vessel and an unprecedented Roman whetstone factory.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Digging for Britain Season 13 Episode 5 - Medieval Murder and Roman Pets
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    #5 - Medieval Murder and Roman Pets

    S13:E5

    Featuring a vast first-century Roman compound, the warhorses that changed the course of history, a medieval murder mystery, the thriving farmstead belonging to Isaac Newton's mother, thousands of animal bones from a Roman farm, and a 300-million-year-old forest that built the modern world.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Digging for Britain Season 13 Episode 6 - A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing Well
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    #6 - A Cornish Legend and an Ancient Wishing Well

    S13:E6

    Tantalising clues to the ancient origin story of St Michael’s Mount, rare Roman cavalry swords with hidden secrets and a wishing well of coins at a promontory fort in Pembrokeshire.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 13 Ratings Summary

"Scottish Massacre and 70s Skate Park" is the best rated episode of "Digging for Britain" season 13. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/7/2026. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Our Rarest Find and Biggest Dig".