Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited

Episode 2

Families of the Stone Age

Julian Richards returns to the excavation of two burials from the Stone Age - the grave of an entire Neolithic family in Dorset and a tomb on Orkney that is helping to reveal some strange and unexpected burial rites from over 5,000 years ago.

Episode 3

Sacred Women of the Iron Age

Archaeologist Julian Richards has the latest on two very different burials of Iron Age women and a brand new discovery in a rare chariot burial.

Episode 4

The First Anglo-Saxons

Julian Richards returns to the excavation of two early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries to explore the mystery of the Anglo-Saxon invasions that began after the fall of the Roman Empire. In particular, the rich burial of a warrior and his horse offers up fresh clues to some of the very first pioneers.