Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets

Five Bronze Age bodies have been found in a deep pit in Kent. One of them, an old woman, has been manipulated into a position where she is pointing at something. But at what? And why?

Tori Herridge and a team of scientists attempt to piece together the lives behind discovered bones, and find out what happened to these people and how they died.

This episode comes from Andover, Hampshire, where the construction of a proposed car park outside the city has been held up by the discovery of remains from over 100 young men. The bones are discovered to date back to Anglo-Saxon times, but appear to have been left in a mass grave rather than granted the Christian burial that was normal for their era.

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.

Tori Herridge and a team of scientists investigate when the remains of a young woman from the Bronze Age are found during routine roadworks on the A9 in Scotland. In her grave are clues to who she might have been, including a finely made beaker. Does she belong to the so-called Beaker People, who migrated from Europe to Britain more than 4,000 years ago?

Tori Herridge and a team of scientists visit the most excavated monastic site in Europe, tucked away in the corner of an industrial park in Runcorn, Cheshire. An investigation into the bones of the people buried here reveals a story of medieval knights, brutal murder, and generations of people afflicted by an ancient disease.

Tori Herridge and a team of scientists examines remains found at a Roman cemetery which was uncovered on the site of a planned housing estate near Amesbury in Wiltshire. Among the bones recovered is an unusual case of grave disturbance, in which the remains of a middle-aged man seem to have been stabbed and beheaded after burial.

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.