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About Time Team

Time Team was an archaeology series on television in which each week the team would investigate/excavate a different historical site. The series ran for twenty years and sparked a huge interest in archaeology. The programme itself has been exported to 35 countries, has been crowdfunded, and has now been rebooted due to popular demand. Two new episodes were filmed in 2021 (and shown in 2022). Plans are underway for future episodes.

This England Project Topic lists all the episodes which were linked in some way to antiquarians, archaeologists, designers, and historical figures.

This page lists the episodes from Seasons 16 - 20, including the following:

Season 16

Episode 1 "The Trouble with Temples" (Friar's Wash, Hertfordshire)
- Two Roman temples, shown by crop marks in an aerial photograph, do not show in geophys images - and then they multiply
Episode 2 "The Wedding Present" (Scargill Castle, Co Durham
- Digging the fortified manor house called Scargill Castle, said to have been visited by King Edward II
Episode 3 "Heroes' Hill" (Knockdhu, County Antrim)
- The team battles to explore a promontory fort in Northern Ireland against strong winds and fog
Episode 4 "Toga Town" (Caerwent, Monmouthshire)
- 'Filling in the blanks' in the best-preserved Roman town in Britain
Episode 5 "Blood, Sweat, and Beers" (Risehill, North Yorkshire)
- Looking into the navvy camp which held workers who made the last of their monuments: The Risehill Tunnel. Featuring "Big Rachel"
Episode 6 "Buried Bishops and Belfries" (Salisbury, Wiltshire)
- Locating Salisbury Cathedral's bell tower, plus identifying a set of mystery bones - not those of Bishop Richard Beauchamp
Episode 7 "Anarchy in the UK" (Radcot, Oxfordshire)
- Searching for a Norman Castle, and finding King Stephen and Queen Matilda
Episode 8 "Mystery of the Ice Cream Villa" (Colworth, Bedfordshire)
- An elusive Roman villa turns into a modest country house
Episode 9 "Hermit Harbour" (Looe Island, Cornwall)
- Twin exploration of two chapels dedicated to St Michael; one on Looe Island, the other on the mainland. Originally explored by Charles Croft Andrew in the 1930s
Episode 10 "Called to the Bar" (Lincoln's Inn, London)
- Locating the medieval palace of Ralph Neville, Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Chichester, underneath Lincoln's Inn
Episode 11 "Beacon of the Fens" (Chapel Head, Cambridgeshire)
- Searching for a chapel links the power base of Geoffrey de Mandeville
Episode 12 "The Hollow Way" (Ulnaby, Co Durham)
- In pursuit of a deserted medieval village, the team finds the Psalter of Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, and hears of the confiscation of the village from Charles de Neville in 1570
Episode 13 "Skeletons in the Shed" (Blythburgh, Suffolk)
- Looking into an Augustinian priory church and its cloister(s), the team finds that it was built on top of one built by 6th century King Anna

Season 17

Episode 1 "Corridors of Power" (Westminster Abbey, London)
- Hunting for the missing sacristy built for Westminster Abbey by King Henry III. Featuring Sir Gilbert Scott, architect
Episode 2 "A Saintly Site" (Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides)
- Excavating a chapel built by the followers of St Columba, who built on Iona and spread Christianity throughout Scotland
Episode 3 "Bridge Over the River Tees" (Piercebridge, Co Durham)
- Thousands of Roman finds coming out of the river lead to the discovery of three bridges
Episode 4 "In the Halls of a Saxon King" (Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire)
- Exploring a flat Sutton Courtenay field for Anglo-Saxon buildings, originally excavated by E T Leeds in the 1920s
Episode 5 "The Massacre in the Cellar" (Hopton Castle, Shropshire)
- Discovering how Hopton Castle looked originally, and searching for a mass grave from 1644. Featuring Samuel More and Sir Michael Woodhouse, commanders of the massacred and their executioners
Episode 6 "Potted History" (Mildenhall, Wiltshire)
- Digging for the lost Roman town of Cunetio, site of a tax centre and hoard of 55,000 coins
Episode 7 "Death and Dominoes" (Norman Cross, Cambridgeshire)
- Locating a 1797 prison for Napoleonic prisoners-of-war - including its cemetery
Episode 8 "Something for the Weekend" (Tregruk Castle, Llangbi, Monmouthshire)
- A mysterious castle surrounding an empty space is revealed as a pleasaunce. Originally built by Joan 'of Acre' de Clare and followed up by her youngest daughter, Elizabeth
Episode 9 "Governor's Green" (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
- Tracing the grounds of the 'Garrison Church', founded as a medieval hospital by Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester
Episode 10 "Priory Engagement" (Burford, Oxfordshire)
- Looking for the Anglo-Saxon beginnings of Burford under the Priory (actually a private house)
Episode 11 "There's a Villa Here Somewhere" (Litlington, Cambridgeshire)
Episode 12 "Commanding Heights" (Dinmore Hill, Herefordshire)
Episode 13 "Rooting for the Romans" (Bedford Purlieus Wood, Cambridgeshire)
- Investigation of Roman walls protruding from the ground. Previously investigated by Edmund Artis in 1828

Season 18

Episode 1 "Reservoir Rituals" (Tottiford Reservoir, Devon)
- Investigating a Neolithic site at the bottom of a reservoir, including a prehistoric stone circle
Episode 2 "Saxon Death, Saxon Gold" (West Langton, Leicestershire)
- Gold and amber grave goods are discovered. Raksha witnesses her own Saxon funeral; archive footage shows Tony being 'buried' with hair spray...
Episode 3 "Romans on the Range" (High Ham, Somerset)
- Searching for two lost Roman mosaics, originally discovered by William Webber Munckton in 1861
Episode 4 "Hitler's Island Fortress" (Les Gellettes, Jersey)
Episode 5 "Furnace in the Forest" (Derwentcote, Co Durham)
- Featuring Reinhold Rücker Angerstein, a Swedish spy who came to Derwentcote to observe its ironmaking processes
Episode 6 "Under the Gravestones" (Castor, Cambridgeshire)
- Looking for Roman buildings; also looking at Edmund Artis's life, works - and 1847 grave. Stewart dresses in period costume and pretends to be Artis
Episode 7 "The House of the White Queen" (Groby, Leicestershire)
- Investigating a Norman motte-and-bailey on land owned by Hugh de Grandmesnil (1032-1094)
Episode 8 "Cannons and Castles" (Orgueil, Jersey)
- Exploring the 13th century Mont Orgueil Castle in Jersey, which became important when King John lost his holdings in France. Almost vertical archaeology!
Episode 9 "Mystery of the Manor Moat" (Llancaiach, South Wales)
- Searching for a moat and its house that belonged to the powerful Prichard family, who are said to be descended from Ifor Bach (1110-1170)
Episode 10 "Search for the Domesday Mill" (Buck Mill, Somerset)

Season 19

Episode 1 "Dig by Wire" (Gateholm Island, Pembrokeshire)
- Excavating on an island only reachable by zip wire. Featuring new team members Alex and Mary Ann
Episode 2 "A Village Affair" (Bitterley, Shropshire)
Episode 3 "The Drowned Town" (Dunwich, Suffolk)
- Looking for the medieval hospital Maison Dieu in the fast-eroding coastal town of Dunwich
Episode 4 "The First King of Racing" (Newmarket, Suffolk)
- Searching for the racing stables and palace of King Charles II
Episode 5 "Chapel of Secrets" Beadneil, Northumberland)
- Investigating a seventh-century chapel and burials on the edge of a cliff. A shallow grave brings the police
Episode 6 "A Copper Bottomed Dig" (Pentrechwith, Swansea)
- Searching for 'Copperopolis' - Swansea's first copper works, established by John Vivian from Cornwall. It was easier/cheaper to bring Cornish copper to Swansea's coal
Episode 7 "The Only Earl is Essex" (Colne Priory, Essex)
- Locating the priory of Earl's Colne and the whereabouts of the grave of Edward de Vere (suggested by some to be Shakespeare himself)
Episode 8 "Secrets of the Dunes" (Kenfig, Bridgend)
- Digging in the sand for the lost medieval town of Kenfig
Episode 9 "Rome's Wild West" (Caerleon, Newport)
- Joining Cardiff University students in digging at Caerleon. Alex spends 24 hours as a Roman legionary
Episode 10 "How to Lose a Castle" (Crewkerne, Somerset)
- Searching for a medieval castle on Castle Hill built by Baldwin de Redvers and unfinished
Episode 11 "King John's Lost Palace" (Clipstone, Nottinghamshire)
- Was it a hunting lodge or the lost palace of King John? The Team investigates

Season 20

Episode 1 "The Forgotten Gunners of WWI" (Belton Park, Lincolnshire)
- Tracing the beginnings of the Machine Gun Corps - where they lived and trained. Featuring Charles Pashler, Edith Smith, and Graham Musson
Episode 2 "Brancaster" (Brancaster, Norfolk)
- Uncovering the buildings of the Roman fort at Branadunum
Episode 3 "A Capital Hill" (Ely, Cardiff)
- Looking for evidence of the Iron Age capital of South Wales. Tony helps to create an Iron Age drinking vessel
Episode 4 "Henham's Lost Mansions" (Henham Park, Suffolk)
- Searching for Tudor mansion Henham Hall, destroyed by fire in 1773. Originally built by Charles Brandon, best friend of King Henry VIII
Episode 5 "Warriors" (Figheldean, Wiltshire)
- Joining with the British Army's 'Operation Nightingale' to find Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon burials
Episode 6 "The Lost Mines of Lakeland" (Coniston, Cumbria)
- Deep digging for copper mines established by Queen Elizabeth I
Episode 7 "Horseshoe Hall" (Oakham Castle, Rutland)
- Investigating a 12th century castle on land granted to Walchelin de Ferriers by King Richard I (The Lionheart)
Episode 8 "Mystery of the Thames-side Villa" (Dropshort, Oxfordshire)
- Working out why a Roman villa (with possible mosaic) is in the middle of nowhere
Episode 9 "The Lost Castle of Dundrum" (Castle Dundrum, County Down)
- Investigating the castle at Dundrum, linked to John de Courcy, a Somerset-born knight of Henry II and Hugh de Lacy, knight of King John
Episode 10 "Wolsey's Lost Palace" (Moor Park, Hertfordshire)
- Locating Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's palace, said to be more splendid than Hampton Court
Episode 11 "An Englishman's Castle" (Upton Castle, Pembrokeshire)
- Untangling the history of Upton Castle, held against Owain_Glyndŵr

Time Team (main page)
Seasons 1 - 5
Seasons 6 -10
Seasons 11-15
Seasons 16-20 (this page)
Seasons 20-21
Specials and Compilations

Sources

Episodes viewed on YouTube and from private collection
Wessex Archaeology Archive at Archaeology Data Service