Astrologer Russell Grant tells the story of a bronze Capricorn figurine unearthed by a Somerset couple in 2011, which provides an insight into the vital role of star signs in the life of Roman emperor Augustus. Bettany Hughes hears the tragic tale of an 18th-century ring found by a man in Shropshire in 2005, while Michael Buerk investigates an 800-year-old coat of arms badge discovered by a postman in the ruins of an old monastery in Dumfries and Galloway. Suzannah Lipscomb researches the history of a medieval gold locket from Rolleston, Nottinghamshire, thought to have belonged to a pair of lovers torn apart by war.

A vast hoard of Roman coins leads John Prescott to discover that political spin began much earlier than he thought, Mary-Ann Ochota tells the story of an astonishing Iron Age mirror, and Bettany Hughes reveals the royal secret behind a hunting badge attached to a bird of prey. Suzannah Lipscomb travels to Essex, where an Elizabethan pendant was found five years ago by a carpenter on the grounds of Ingatestone Hall.