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BRITAIN’S BIGGEST DIG

Tuesday 15 September

BBC Two and BBC iPlayer

Preparing the ground for the construction of the HS2 high-speed railway linking London with Birmingham and beyond has inevitably meant digging down into history. And, since cataloguing archaeological remains is part and parcel of major construction projects, that means teams of experts have been excavating at sites along the route.

The dizzying amount of work involved is made clear in this new three-part archaeology series following HS2-linked excavations when

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