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The Great British Dig – History in Your Garden (2)
Agricola, Antonine Wall, Antoninus Pius, Beningborough, bowls clubs, castles, Channel Four, Chloe Duckworth, Devizes, Elizabethan buildings, Falkirk, Hadrian’s Wall, housing estates, Hugh Dennis, Iron Age, John Bourchier, Liverpool, mill streams, Natasha Billson, North Yorkshire, power, prisons, Richard Taylor, Roman Empire, roundabouts, royal hunting estates, schools, St. Edward the Confessor, sunken gardens, The Great British Dig, West Derby, WiltshireHugh Dennis and his small team of archaeologists are back on Channel Four and this time they have gone back a full two thousand years and beyond. The series starts in Falkirk with a fort and a piece of the Antonine Wall, apparently buried under several gardens and a bowls club. After some digging, the…
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Those of you who attended part of Richard III’s reburial week, or visited St. Martin’s Cathedral and the Visitors’ Centre subsequently, may have wandered off into the east of the city centre along Cank Street, Silver Street by the old arcades, or even the High Street, past. At the end of High Street, into which…