Bone Detectives
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Bone Detectives, Beaker, Caithness, Scotland

Season 1, Episode 7

Roadworks on the A9 road in Caithness, Scotland uncover the remains of a young woman who lived and died in the early Bronze Age. Was she one of the so-called Beaker People?

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The Isle Of Thanet, Kent
S1 E1 • 44m • HDClosed CaptionedU

Five bodies dating from the Bronze Age are found in a deep pit on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. One of them is an old woman, who has been manipulated into a position where she is pointing at something. The team try to find out at what and why.

Stoke Quay, Ipswich
S1 E2 • 44m • HDClosed CaptionedU

Tori investigate the remains of children and teenagers found in Leeds city centre. The team reveals what life was like for the children of the Industrial Revolution.

Weyhill, Hampshire
S1 E3 • 44m • HDClosed CaptionedU

The remains of over 100 young Anglo-Saxon men are found under a planned car park in Hampshire. Tori and the scientists investigate why they were denied a Christian interment and buried so remotely.

Victoria Gate, Leeds
S1 E4 • 44m • HDClosed CaptionedU

Beneath a shopping arcade in Leeds' city centre, archaeologists discovered a Roman-era Christian cemetery containing the remains of 317 individuals, including 12 individuals buried in early medieval-style lead coffins.

Bristol
S1 E5 • 44m • HDClosed CaptionedU

Scotty Moore travels to the northern coast of Peru, where archaeologists have discovered a teenage girl buried in a strange place just outside an empty tomb.

Amesbury, Wiltshire
S1 E6 • 44m • HDClosed CaptionedU

Archaeologists discover Roman cemeteries, including a grave with a beheaded and stabbed man, leading to an investigation by Tori and her team into who committed the act and why.

Beaker, Caithness, Scotland
S1 E7 • 44m • HDClosed CaptionedU

Roadworks on the A9 road in Caithness, Scotland uncover the remains of a young woman who lived and died in the early Bronze Age. Was she one of the so-called Beaker People?

Norton Priory, Chesire
S1 E8 • 44m • HDClosed CaptionedU

Archaeologists study skeletal remains found at Norton Priory, a monastic site in Cheshire, uncovering stories of medieval life and ancient diseases like an unusual form of Paget's disease.

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  • About this episode
  • Roadworks on the A9 road in Caithness, Scotland uncover the remains of a young woman who lived and died in the early Bronze Age. Was she one of the so-called Beaker People?
  • CrewMichael Waterhouse (Director), Jane Magowan (Director)
  • GenreFeatures
  • Seasons1
  • ChannelSky History