The Mystery of Mine Howe - Tankerness, Orkney S00E07
I’m in a remote farm in the Orkneys on a little hillock called Mine Howe. For years there have been stories around here of tunnels under the roads and mysterious underground rooms, which have never been satisfactorily explained until about six months ago when an extraordinary discovery was made. Acting on stories of a lost secret chamber first found in 1946, a local farmer and his friends set out to rediscover it. What they found was extraordinary. A set of stairs made of stone, disappearing into the earth and leading to a dark and secret chamber. A set of stairs leading into a hillock’s unique. And now the whole archaeological world is agog, everyone wants to know who built it and when and what it was put there for.
Series Cast

Gus Casely-Hayford
Self - Presenter

Natalie Haynes
Self - Presenter

Carenza Lewis
Self - Field Archaeologist

John Gater
Self - Geophysicist

Stewart Ainsworth
Self - Landscape Investigator

Helen Geake
Self - Anglo-Saxon Specialist

Matt Williams
Self - Field Archaeologist

Derek Pitman
Self - Archaeologist

Lawrence Shaw
Self - Archaeologist