Archaeologist Alice Roberts and the Digging For Britain team dig through some of the strangest Roman-era finds unearthed across the United Kingdom, including a mass grave of infant remains and a burial where a man was laid to rest atop a large pile of meat. The film follows excavation teams on site as they pull artifacts and bones from the ground, then brings in specialists to explain what the burial patterns and grave goods reveal about daily life, ritual, and death in Roman Britain. Roberts moves between dig locations and lab analysis, letting archaeologists talk through their working theories on camera rather than delivering settled conclusions. The mass infant grave in particular raises uncomfortable questions the team addresses directly: infanticide, disease, or something else entirely. Expect muddy trenches, careful trowel work, and researchers weighing competing explanations for evidence that does not offer easy answers, all assembled from the long-running Digging For Britain series rather than a single one-off shoot.