Overview
- Sandi Toksvig’s Hidden Wonders premieres on November 4, with the series commissioned for More4 and promoted in Channel 4 publicity.
- The first episode visits Winterborne Kingston in Dorset, where teams uncovered a roughly 2,000-year-old cemetery and Roman‑style artefacts including bronze brooches, a bronze bangle and a bone comb.
- Excavators found a teenager buried face down with arm and torso injuries, a case researchers describe as possibly sacrificial, and Toksvig was moved to tears when carefully handling the remains.
- Archaeologist Raksha Dave, president of the Council for British Archaeology, joins Toksvig across the four digs featured in the series.
- Later episodes feature work at Cookham Abbey, Hadrian’s Wall and an Essex site recovering a US World War II fighter plane, with the presenters urging public volunteering and heritage conservation.