Britain's Secret Treasures (Documentary, English)
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2012-07-16
Ended: 2013-12-05
Network: ITV1
Country: GB
Airs on: Thursday
Air time: 20:00
Runtime: 60 minutes
Britain's Secret Treasures is a British documentary hosted by Michael Buerk and Bettany Hughes. The programme features fifty archaeological discoveries that have been made in England, Wales and Scotland by members of the public. With the exception of a single find made in Scotland, all the objects featured were recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS). Since the PAS was set up in 1997, some 800,000 objects have been registered with the scheme, many of them discovered by amateur metal detectorists.