Hugh Dennis and the team are in Odiham, Hampshire, searching for the house of Sir Frances Walsingham, the head of Elizabeth I's Secret Service. It is the first time the site has ever been dug, so with very little to go on, our team want to locate the house, work out its size and scale, and what Walsingham may have used it for. As part of the investigation, Hugh turns his hand to spy craft as he learns how Walsingham used to break codes.
Hugh Dennis and the team visit a a housing estate in Oldham, Greater Manchester, where they attempt to unearth a Victorian mill that was converted into a prisoner of war camp that housed over 6000 men during the Second World War. As part of the investigation, Hugh also visits Manor Mill, a stunning example of a 19th-century cotton mill.
Hugh Dennis and the team solve a 17th-century mystery in King's Lynn, as they hunt for enormous defensive earthworks that surrounded the Norfolk town during the English Civil War. However, as the barricades were built from Earth and the team are looking for them in Earth, finding any evidence of their existence is not going to be easy.
Hugh Dennis and the team go on the hunt for the Morda Workhouse in Oswestry, Shropshire, and search for evidence of what life was really like for the poor who ended up there. As part of his investigation, Hugh also visits Llanfyllin Workhouse, where he takes some hard labour like the inmates would have done - stone breaking.
Hugh Dennis and the team solve a medieval mystery in Coventry, as they search for a monastic grange known as Biggin Hall, which provided produce for the nearby monks at St Mary's Priory. As the team dig deeper, they not only uncover all kinds of exciting artefacts that tell them more about the lives of the monks, but completely redraw the map of what we thought we knew about the grange itself in Coventry.
Hugh Dennis and the team excavate a recently discovered Roman fort near Calstock in Cornwall.
Hugh and the team get digging in stunning Studley Royal Park in North Yorkshire, on a quest to find the lost Georgian mansion that would have been the heart of the Water Gardens
In Northumberland, Hugh and the team excavate the birthplace of one of the country's most famous 18th-century naturalists and engravers, Thomas Bewick
Hugh and the team search for the lost medieval castle of the 14th-century knight, Sampson de Strelley.
Hugh and the team excavate a seaside villa with a royal connection, and discover how Bognor spearheaded the British staycation.
Hugh and the team look back at some of their most exciting archaeological adventures, from Anglo-Scandinavian burials in North Yorkshire to a Roman fort in Newcastle