The Scottish Crannog Centre by Kenmore, Loch Tay was this week used as a location for filming a new primetime BBC series.

History Hunters will be aired on BBC1 every night for a week, visiting a range of locations around the UK.

Led by underwater archaeologists Dr Nick Dixon and Ms Barrie Andrian – founders and directors of the Crannog Centre – presenter Dan Snow, son of television journalist Peter Snow, visited a number of crannog sites in Loch Tay and dived at the early Iron Age site of Oakbank Crannog.

Following the dive he visited the Scottish Crannog Centre to see a reconstruction.

“I knew nothing about crannogs before this trip,” Snow said. “Having just seen for myself – underwater – the scale of the original site, its timbers, and even the bracken which covered the floor, it is great to see such an authentic replica with all the supporting technology. It is amazing how the centre brings everything to life.”

History Hunters is part of The One Show, a new magazine programme covering a range of themes in locations across the UK.

Other locations in the series include the Napoleonic tunnels and a nuclear bunker beneath Dover Castle; the Lost City of Trellich near Monmouth, which once was famous for its iron production and was the largest settlement in Medieval Wales; and the Red Sands Forts in the Thames Estuary which served as anti-aircraft structures in the second world war and later became homes for pirate radio stations in the 1960s.

Photograph: Presenter Dan Snow at the Scottish Crannog Centre filming for BBC1’s new programme, The One Show.