Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time

Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time

7.7IMDb Score
Released:2016-08-02
Duration:59 min
Director:Sarah Jobling
Actors:Alice Roberts
Production:BBC, 360 Production, ARTE

Overview:

Professor Alice Roberts joins the team excavating a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age village in the Cambridgeshire Fens that's been called the 'British Pompeii' due to the remarkable levels of preservation.

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