Bone Detectives
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Bone Detectives
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Bone Detectives

Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together the lives behind unearthed bones to find out their stories. Once a skeleton has been recorded, the bones immediately begin to reveal their mysteries, opening up a secret history of Britain.

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The Isle Of Thanet, Kent
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 series
  • Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together the lives behind unearthed bones to find out their stories. Once a skeleton has been recorded, the bones immediately begin to reveal their mysteries, opening up a secret history of Britain.
  • CrewMichael Waterhouse (Director), Jane Magowan (Director)
  • GenreFeatures
  • Seasons1
  • StudioSky History

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