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Meet the Ancestors
Episode 2 "The Lady of the Sands"
Transmission date : 15th January 1998
Channel : BBC2
Duration : 30 mins.
Country : Great Britain
Executive Producer : Caroline Van Den Brul
Series Producer : Ian Potts
Presenter : Julian Richards
Overview
Julian Richards investigates a bulldozer-operator's discovery of bodies cremated almost 2,000 years ago on a beach near Donegal, providing an insight into the lives and deaths
in one of Ireland's early Christian communities.
Archaeologist Betty O’Brien investigated the site on the beach after a farmer discovered Human Bones there.
Slab lined graves were uncovered just below the sand’s surface. It is conjectured that these burials are from a small group – either a family or community, burying their dead
on the site of an earlier burial site
A layer of boulders near the burials seem to be from an earlier cairn.
Episode 3 "Friends, Romans or Countrymen"
Transmission date : 22nd January 1998
Channel : BBC2
Duration : 30 mins.
Country : Great Britain
Production Company : BBC
Distributors : BBC
Executive Producer : Caroline Van Den Brul
Series Producer : Ian Potts
Presenter : Julian Richards
Overview
Julian Richards joins a team excavating a large sarcophagus from a location near Bristol which was unearthed by a bulldozer-operator.
Clearly Roman in date and complete apart from cracks in the stone of the sarcophagus that threatened to break apart during lifting operations, the excavation of this intact
but weighty object necessitated the construction of a special lifting frame.
Back at the excavation HQ, the sarcophagus is excavated slowly and steadily (as it should be) to glean as much evidence from it as possible.
The reconstruction of the buried man’s face is completed using computer technology.
Episode 4 " The Rose Garden Mystery"
Transmission date : 29th January 1998
Channel : BBC2
Duration : 30 mins.
Country : Great Britain
Production Company : BBC
Distributors : BBC
Executive Producer : Caroline Van Den Brul
Series Producer : Ian Potts
Presenter : Julian Richards
Overview
Julian Richards investigates the remains of a tall skeleton in an elaborate stone coffin dating to the Anglo-Saxon period, discovered in the grounds of Abbey House (in the
grounds of what was the Benedictine Abbey of Malmebury) in the summer of 1997.
Martin Roberts had been digging in the garden when his spade hit an elaborate stone coffin close to the surface. The 7 ft coffin suggested that it contained someone of
importance
Malmesbury has long been held to be the final resting place of King Athelstan and so there is early interest during the program as to the identity of the body.
In this episode a computer reconstruction is performed
