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Fiona Bruce and the team uncover the fascinating stories behind valuable personal items.

Amazing items, poignant stories, beautiful locations. Fiona Bruce and the experts uncover fascinating family and social history embodied in priceless, personal and peculiar items.

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Antiques Roadshow: Series 44: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 3

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The team return to Edinburgh, where finds include a set of traditional Highland dress. 

The team return to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, where finds include a set of traditional Highland dress. Fiona gets a closer look at a plant specimen collected by Charles Darwin.

Fiona and the team return to the beautiful grounds of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, where finds include a stunning set of traditional Highland dress that once belonged to a clan chieftain and a rare Rolex Sea-Dweller watch.

Siobhan Tyrell is thrilled to see a selection of medals awarded to pioneering diver Verrall Newman, including a 1924 Olympic participant’s medal, while Susan Rumfitt hears the poignant story behind a Norwegian bridal brooch. Ronnie Archer Morgan admires a 19th-century bust of a young black man by Scottish sculptor Thomas Stuart Burnett, while Lisa Lloyd appraises a large decorative Suzani textile from central Asia.

Alastair Dickenson is intrigued by a silver trophy in the shape of a ram’s head, awarded to the winner of a one-mile bicycle race in 1897 – but what was the curious object’s original purpose? Fiona gets the chance to take a closer look at a plant specimen collected by Charles Darwin during his voyage on HMS Beagle, and Theo Burrell challenges her to put a selection of ceramic piglets by the Wemyss firm in order of value.

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