Continuing the historical strand. Ends 8.50. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/history
Meet the Ancestors Treausures of the Dark Age.
Julian Richards reports from Peterborough, where an area of waste land by a business park has yielded up some fascinating artefacts. A wealth of bronze brooches, silver rings, amber beads and ivory objects imply the site was used by the first
Anglian settlers as a burial ground and suggest that the lives of those living in the period known as the Dark Ages were paradoxically full of great sophistication and colour.
Producer Jamie Simpson ; Series producer Ian Potts (R) S)