Sandi and Raksha join the team from the University of Reading at the site of Cookham Abbey, once ruled by the powerful Queen Cynethryth, as they uncover exciting new evidence of early medieval monastic life in eighth-century Britain, including clues that this site may have once served as a hospice for the sick and dying.

Sandi is in Essex, helping to find and identify the wreckage of a Second World War US Army Air Forces fighter plane in the hope of repatriating its pilot. As archaeologists carry out a forensic search, Sandi unearths training logs and a weather report from the day the plane crashed, gaining further insight into a young life cut short.