Digging for Britain

The return of the lovely Alice Roberts and her round-up of archaeology in the British Isles.  Some intriguing discoveries including what appears to be a prehistoric house bang in the middle the Avebury Henge (though ironically the site it too important for them to dig!).  They also found the legendary Viking camp at Repton from the invasion of 873, including large numbers of human remains of the right period, who appeared to be foreigners and some of which were women.  Then there were the unmarked graves of on 'Rat Island', holding the mortal remains of 19th convicts from the prison hulks.  At the gloriously named Cat's Brain, part of the Stonehenge landscape, they excavated a Neolithic Long Barrow which appeared to house not a grave but a building, and another at Dorstone where the building had seemingly been deliberately destroyed before burial.  They also had a hoard of gold torques and a possible Roman temple at an isolated location, suggesting Roman culture had penetrated more deeply into the countryside that often thought.