Time Team (1994)
Time Team is a British television series which has been aired on British Channel 4 from 1994. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in layman's terms. This team of specialists changed throughout the series' run, although has consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding. The sites excavated over the show's run have ranged in date from the Palaeolithic right through to the Second World War.
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3x01 Boleigh, Cornwall - Prehistoric Fougou
07 January, 1996 6:00 pm
A 2,000-year-old underground chamber - or Fogou - takes the team deep into the far west of Cornwall. The fogou is located in the garden centre for alternative studies, and Tony cannot resist trying his hand at a spot of dowsing.
3x02 Stanton Harcourt, Oxon - Hunting for Mammoth
14 January, 1996 6:00 pm
Archaeological survey. The team attempt to unearth evidence of the past existence of mammoths and other prehistoric animals in the river valleys of Oxfordshire. However, as the vital clues lie in a gravel pit which is soon to become a waste tip, the group must race against time if they are to complete their task.
3x03 Templecombe, Somerset - Village of the Templars
21 January, 1996 6:00 pm
The Time Team visits the village of Templecombe in Somerset, where the Knight's Templar - a major power in the 12th and 13th centuries - established a preceptory in 1185. It is here that they would have admitted new members and trained them for the Crusades.
3x04 Teignmouth, Devon - A Wreck of the Spanish Armada
28 January, 1996 6:00 pm
The team attempt to identify an ancient ship that was wrecked some 400 years ago off Teignmouth beach in Devon. Twenty years ago, a teenage scuba diver found a bronze canon belonging to the wreck on the seabed. But after all that time under water, will there still be enough of the ship left for the Time Team to identify it?
3x05 Navan, County Armagh - Palace of the Irish Kings
04 February, 1996 6:00 pm
Palace of the Irish Kings.
The fort of Emain Macha in Ireland was once the home of princes and kings of Ulster, and, according to Celtic legend, was built by King Conchobar, who also built two other palaces. The team go to Navan, the modern-day site of Emain Macha, in search of evidence of the other palaces and attempt to find a connection between what may have been a sacrificial pool and an ancient hill called Haughey's Fort.
3x06 Preston St Mary, Suffolk - Treasures of the Roman Field
11 February, 1996 6:00 pm
Treasures of the Roman Field.
Discover why for years a Suffolk farmer has gathered hundreds of pieces of Roman pottery, jewellery and coins from one particular field on his land. Where did all this rich material come from? The Time Team heads into Lavenham to find out.
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