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- A group of archaeologists have 3 days to discover historical artifacts in different sites around Britain.
- The bones in a cave are carbon dated and trenches reveal no archaeology, but do show a trackway to the cave. Cannibalism of the bones suggests humiliation rather than need.
- Time Team search for a Roman Villa complex on a 1950s housing estate in Ipswich. It should be easy as it was previously dug by an amateur archaeologist before the estate was built but his records and methods may not be all they seem.
- Trying to find evidence of a demolished village called Henderskelfe under the lawns of Castle Howard. Maps show where they should be but digging does not find them.
- The Team travel back to the Bronze Age to Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire. The fenland bog is home to one of the most important archaeological 'wet-sites' in the country, where the soggy conditions help preserve 3000-year-old buried timbers.
- The Time Team visit Greenwich Palace, built by Henry VIII father and extensively developed by the greatest of Tudor Kings. The team is looking for evidence of two major buildings, long since demolished to build the famous Greenwich hospital.
- Kew Garden home of George III favorite palace, however after 250 years all that remains of this wonderful building is a sundial. The Time team has only three days to survey the remains of the building, and unlock all its buried secrets. But first they have to find the building first
- In 3 days the team excavate an ancient Briton henge and dive a roughly circular crannog in the loch. In 1900 the Migdale hoard was found in a granite quarry nearby. But where exactly?
- On the edge of the river Thames, a series of posts driven into the riverbed have been found. Also 2 Bronze Age spearheads. Are these the remains of London's first bridge or the supports of a platform where Bronze-Age people made offerings.
- Waltham field, in the village of Whittington, five miles from Cheltenham. Alerted by Gloucester County Archaeology, the Team have come in search of a Roman villa.
- Time Team try to find the remains of a grand country house that once played host to five reigning monarchs. What was left of the original Tudor mansion, built in the 1520s and believed to have burnt down and been abandoned in 1745.
- High Ercall Hall, in Shropshire, is the very picture of rural tranquility today, but 355 years ago, at the height of the English Civil War, more than 200 Royalist troops were crammed inside the walls fighting for their lives.
- A local couple digging a fish pond in their back garden find a skeleton. Complete with a knife, pottery and a valuable buckle. Clearly Saxon the couple wonder if they have a cemetery in their garden.
- A team of archaeologists have just three days to excavate the site of an Elizabethan blast furnace after finding clues in a test pit dug as part of Time Team Big Dig. The team also explore medieval furnaces at nearby East Wall and try smelting their own iron.
- Down a bridleway within a dense Sussex wood, a Roman bath house stands, with walls head-high, completely forgotten for centuries.
- The Time Team travel to Hadrian's Wall the world's longest Roman monument for the once in a lifetime investigation of A Roman burial site attached to the fort know as Birdoswald. While the excavation of the cemetery goes as expected they stumble on evidence of something far more exciting.
- The Time Team investigate a Roman Villa found at Blacklands Somerset. Conventional history tells that the Britons fought against the Romans and refused to allow many of their cultural standards to be Romanized. Rather than finding a culture in conflict they discover some things about the villa that may eventually rewrite the history of early Britain
- In the late 18th century, a young man opened his first factory in the village of Burslem, later part of Stoke-on-Trent. The man was Josiah Wedgwood. Time Team try and find if anything remained of these early ceramic manufacturing premises.
- Time Team was invited by the Marquess of Bath, owner of one side of the gorge, to investigate Cooper's Hole to see if they could find evidence of Palaeolithic human activity.
- Hooke Court in Dorset now a school is visited by the Time Team. Their main concern is to unravel the hectic construction that seems to have occurred on the site. Although they are interested in features dating from the English Civil War. With more than 5 reconstructions of the buildings and at least one devastating fire; making out the history of the site becomes problematic
- The Time Team visit the Isle Of Man to excavate the last remaining keeill, or small Christian Chapel on the island. What they uncover is a cemetery that had been in use for over 1500 years. Among their finds are some items so rare they may redefined the history of the island and be completely unique in the careers of the archaeologists involved in the project.
- In February 1944, two American 'Flying Fortresses' crashed into each other only a few miles from their home base, on their way back from a bombing raid over Germany. One of the aircraft tumbled into a marsh.
- After field walkers and a metal detectorist find pottery and coins, the trenches reveal Roman settlement. A trackway and kiln suggest Roman industry as well as dwelling.
- Smallhythe is now a village amid fields. The nearest body of water being a Sewer and a drainage ditch. But in the 15th and 16th centuries, it was the site of a bustling shipbuilding industry right next to the mile-wide River Rother.
- Back in the 1950s & 60s, 2 families of amateur archaeologists excavated some Roman remains in what is now a park in Cheshunt. They were asked to keep quiet about it because the British Museum believed this might be an important Roman site.
- A military base in the heart of Bedfordshire is home to the joint armed services intelligence departments. The Team was invited to try to discover more about the history of the officers mess which was once a part of a 13th century monastery.
- In the village of Leighton the Team is investigating a particularly interesting cellar; the archaeology could take us back nearly 400 years. The cellar, based in a pub, contains the remains of a blast furnace - used for making iron.
- The Team rubs shoulders with royalty when they visit Basing House in Hampshire. It was once one of grandest homes in Tudor England and a haunt of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I - until it was destroyed by Cromwell during the Civil War.
- The Time Team go to Coventry to try and locate the layout of the city's first cathedral. The team does a great job locating finds in a chaotic dig criss crossed with power cables and various plumbing lines.
- In search of the real-life Flintstones at one of Britain's early Stone Age sites. A holiday camp in Suffolk. The site dates back 400k years when our ancestors shared the country with lions, rhinos & elephants - but definitely no dinosaurs.
- The Time Team excavate Roman ruins in Greenwich park. The ruins were last investigated over a 100 years ago, but the purpose of the buildings was never confirmed. The team also take the time to check an alternative theory about the route of Wattling Street.
- 1,200 years ago a thriving community of monks and nuns were trying to convert the pagans to Christianity. But the Saxon monastery disappeared after 200 years and lay forgotten until workmen unearthed human bones and grave markers in 1833.
- Time Team head for Herefordshire in search of the palace of the great Anglo-Saxon leader, King Offa, who ruled the kingdom of Mercia from 757 to 796. Records show that a palace was in the area but its exact location has never been found.
- Time Team descend on the tiny village of Wadden in Dorset. Neighbours discovered a huge amount of pottery in their gardens. The pottery dated from Medieval, Roman and the Iron Age. What lies beneath five houses of the village?
- The Team travel to York to excavate 3 sites from 3 different historical periods. They find a Roman skeleton with hobnail boots, a Viking's discarded leather shoe and the pillars of a monastic hospital. But what does this evidence reveal?
- A couple of years ago, local man Derek Batten was driving through the village of Alderton, near Northampton, when he was surprised to see a sign advertising a castle and moat for sale.
- In early 2006 an aerial photographic survey of Anglesey produced a remarkable image. On the slopes south of the town of Amlwch approximately four miles from the island's north coast - a large pentangular earthwork could be seen.
- Time Team are joined by guests Sandi Toksvig and Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. They unearth fine Saxon jewelry, a stash of Norman pottery and a medieval murder victim near Kings Lynn.
- Looking for the world's first railway viaduct. 40 metres long, 10 metres high and 10 arches built in 1790. Yet within 25 years it had disappeared from the landscape. There was no record of it having been demolished so where has it gone?
- A tower is all that's left of a castle built 900 years ago. Occupied for around 5 centuries until it fell to Cromwell in the English Civil War. It survives today, leaning at an angle of 15 degrees. 3 times more than the tower of Pisa.
- The Time Team travel to Canterbury to understand the religious evolution of the city. They are looking for evidence of early Roman temples to the establishment in the first settlements of Monks in England.
- Bredon Hill, one of the most important Iron Age hillforts in the country. Combine this geographical location with aerial photographs of extensive cropmarks that hinted at a Bronze Age settlement.
- In a secluded valley in Wales, what may be a medieval or even Roman trackway leads down to a natural spring. In the middle a megalith, a large standing stone, perhaps 3000 years older than the track and what appears to be a Neolithic tomb.
- Papcastle, a small village outside Cockermouth in Cumbria, boasts a Roman fort. But when a local resident got in touch with Time Team about some substantial stonework he had dug out of his garden the moment had come to look beyond the fort.
- A village that had had its heyday in the Middle Ages. They looked in back gardens and public spaces, under stairs, in cellars and in attics for clues to the village's antiquity, but their biggest surprise came in the grounds of a nunnery.
- The site of Thetford Grammar School in Norfolk may today be a place for exams and play, but in the 13th century, a large Dominican friary was here and before that, for a mere 24 years, a Norman cathedral.
- This year, for the first time revisiting an excavation, S5E4, the Team came back to the site to see if they could make sense of the spectacular geophysics results that they had not had time to investigate during the live dig.
- The Lincolnshire town of Ancaster lies on Ermine Street, which is a major Roman road heading north from London. The only remains visible today are some earth banks and ditches, which have been dated to the 4th century. What was here before?