5 episodes

Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets - Series 2

First aired Sep 26, 2020Season 2

Browse all 5 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Episode 1

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Sep 26, 202045 min

The team visit a long-forgotten cemetery in Ipswich, where 1400 bodies reveal signs of hard labour, disease, murder, and possibly the country's first post-mortem.

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Episode 2

Episode 2

NR
Oct 3, 202045 min

Roadworks on the A9 in 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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Episode 3

Episode 3

NR
Oct 10, 202045 min

Tucked away in a Runcorn industrial park is Europe's most excavated monastic site. It reveals a story of medieval knights, brutal murder and ancient disease.

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Episode 4

Episode 4

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Oct 17, 202045 min

A Wiltshire building site unearths eight Roman cemeteries and the remains of a man beheaded after burial. Who did this, and why? Tori and the team investigate.

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Episode 5

Episode 5

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Oct 24, 202045 min

Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together the story behind the discovery of 13 bodies with the skulls cut open in a 19th-century Bristol graveyard. The investigation uncovers a link to a local hospital, a celebrated surgeon, and the crime of bodysnatching.