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Dr Alice Roberts travels back to the Ages of Bronze and Iron to discover what 
kind of a place Britain was before the Romans invaded. With no written history, 
only archaeology can provide the clues. Alice uncovers a world that is complex, 
sophisticated and pretty strange.

She examines the two Hebridean Bronze Age skeletons known as the Cladh Hallan 
mummies. Not only do they appear to have been mummified, new analysis has 
revealed they are made up of a jigsaw of different people. What did our 
ancestors use the mummies for? And are there more British mummies out there?

In Norfolk, Alice gets her hands dirty helping to pull up timber from a huge 
prehistoric monument that has been hidden in mud for at least 2,000 years. And 
she visits the famous Roman town of Silchester, near Reading, where 
archaeologists are digging below the Roman layers to reveal the Iron Age 
settlement that lies beneath, uncovering evidence for a sophisticated pre-Roman 
lifestyle.

Alice also examines the evidence that suggests Silchester could be the place 
where two British chiefs took a stand against the Romans.