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Great British History Hunters:

Season 1

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With unparalleled access behind the scenes at the British Museum, this landmark four-part series follows a characterful cast of passionate metal detectorists as their incredible, and often valuable, discoveries make their way through the fascinating world of the Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme.

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Episode 1: Episode 1

Summary

With privileged access behind the scenes at the British Museum, this series follows a characterful cast of passionate metal detectorists as their incredible - and often valuable - discoveries make their way through the fascinating world of the Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme. In this first episode a unique collection of Roman bronzes make life-changing amounts of money at auction, mudlarks scour the Thames foreshore for treasures of London's past and a 3,000-year-old gold sun pendant is discovered in Shropshire

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Gill Crawford

This is a pleasing mash-up of Time Team, Antiques Roadshow and Detectorists, as we follow the amateur archaeologists finding treasure across Britain, and the experts of the British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme who assess their finds.

In this opening episode, one item is simply gorgeous. It was unearthed by retired engineer Bob Greenaway, whose method of detectoring is very precise. Known as the Shropshire Sun Pendant, it’s a masterpiece of Bronze Age jewellery that still brings Bob – and a British Museum conservator – great joy.

And two jolly Yorkshiremen are left needing a restorative pint when the late Roman bronze objects they’ve found in a valley a few miles from Scarborough go under auction. Let’s just say they can afford it.

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