Hi, everyone. Welcome to Dance Nose History. I've got a national treasure on the podcast

day. Great friend of mine, Alice Roberts. I went to Choney with her. We made a program

about the terracotta warriors. She did some amazing science, like actual science on some

skeletons in terracotta warriors, as I was running around just infusing about them.

That's the difference, folks, between expert and enthusiast. Anyway, it's great to have

the expert on the podcast today. 2021 was a bumpy year for archaeology school discoveries

across Britain. And in this episode, we're going to whistle-stop tour around some of the

most notable points because she is presenting a wonderful TV show at the moment. She is

presenting Digging for Britain on BBC 2. She's got Cat Jarman, one of the history hit

team as her co-presenter on this. So, you know, our tentacles are extending into the

mainstream media as well. Anyway, and Alice Roberts is talking about that amazing mosaic

that everyone was commenting on last year on social media, the room mosaic that was found,

and the puzzling ruin of a Norman Church discovered by HS2 engineers. Alice Roberts was

there. She talked to the archaeologist's first time. She's going to come on the podcast

now and let us know what it was like. Awesome to have her on. Great to have her back on.

This year, we've also got some HS2 related archaeology coming up on the history of TV. So,

if you like this kind of stuff, please check it out. We're looking at a graveyard, a graveyard

that was sliced through by HS2. We've got lots of interesting information about just how

dark the dark ages were. Don't act me, folks. I know they're not called dark as normal,

but just how dark the early Middle Ages were. Fifth century AD in Britain. How bad was

it? I was bad as people previously thought. You'll find out soon on History Hit TV.

In fact, as ever, you can head over to the link in the description to this podcast. Just

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