Meet the Ancestors - Season 3

Meet the Ancestors - Season 3

Season 3

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Episodes7
DatesJan 13, 2000 - Oct 7, 2000
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Episodes

Princess of the City
Season 3Episode 130 min

Princess of the City

Richards investigates the significance of the archaeological dig at Spitalfields where experts have uncovered an elaborate Roman sarcophagus with a decorated lead coffin inside, and remnants of clothing and objects never before found in Britain.
Jan 13, 2000
The French Connection
Season 3Episode 230 min

The French Connection

Richards investigates the lives of three men whose remains were found on an island just off the coast of Guernsey to find out how they ended up in such a desolate place, and whether they could have been monks.
Jan 20, 2000
The Domesday Fire
Season 3Episode 330 min

The Domesday Fire

Richards examines the remains of a medieval execution victim discovered in one of 600 graves surrounding a ruined Saxon church in Cambridgeshire.
Jan 27, 2000
The Chosen One
Season 3Episode 430 min

The Chosen One

Richards investigates the seemingly bound body of an Iron Age teenage girl found in a rubbish heap in the Cotswold village of Bourton-on-the-Water to reconstruct her life more than 2,500 years ago.
Feb 3, 2000
A Roman Plot
Season 3Episode 530 min

A Roman Plot

Richards explores the stories behind two Roman burial sites excavated in the centre of Bath. He attempts to discover why the deceased were laid to rest contrary to normal Roman custom with one actually placed in a lead coffin and he retraces events from the time when Christianity was gradually taking root in Britain to the final days of Roman rule.
Feb 10, 2000
The Lost Souls
Season 3Episode 630 min

The Lost Souls

Richards recruits local schoolchildren to investigate a mysterious burial ground found among the foundations of the Victorian village school in Buckinghamshire. The project provides a revealing insight into the history of the area and the people who lived there 1,000 years ago.
Feb 17, 2000
Skeleton in the Crypt: The Pilgrim Trade
Season 3Episode 730 min

Skeleton in the Crypt: The Pilgrim Trade

Professor John Butler investigates the mysterious disappearance of the remains of murdered Archbishop of Canterbury St Thomas Becket, killed by Henry II's soldiers in 1170. How much truth is there in the popular belief that he was cremated and his ashes scattered during the Reformation? Plus, an examination of the town of Canterbury itself as a place of pilgrimage and tourism.
Oct 7, 2000

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