
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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5x01 Richmond, Surrey - Richmond Palace Built by Henry V
04 January, 1998 6:00 pm
The team descend on an immaculate croquet lawn at Trumpeters House in Richmond, Surrey, in search of the remains of one of the most opulent monuments of the Tudor dynasty, Richmond Palace.
5x02 Greylake, Somerset - Bronze-Age Trackway
11 January, 1998 6:00 pm
The team go to the Somerset levels in search of a 4,000-year-old wooden trackway. The quickest way to get across the marshes that used to exist here in the Bronze and Iron Ages was across wooden walkways. Now the team hope to find evidence of these footbridges.
5x03 Orkney, Scotland - Viking Graves
18 January, 1998 6:00 pm
The team go in search of evidence of the invasion of the Vikings, and its influence on ancient Britain. The team travel to the Orcadian island of Sanday to try to find out whether four mysterious mounds there are evidence of a Viking settlement or even a Viking burial site.
5x04 Turkdean, Gloucestershire - Roman villa
25 January, 1998 6:00 pm
Tony Robinson and the team return to the site of a previous dig in 1998 which unearthed a Roman villa in the Cotswolds. They discover that the villa dates from the very first days of the Roman occupation. Amongst their new finds is an entire, untouched Roman water course.
5x05 Mallorca, Spain - Copper-Age Settlement
01 February, 1998 6:00 pm
Time Team goes abroad to tackle one of its most challenging sites. They search for evidence of one of the most enigmatic cultures in the world on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The Beaker people flourished in Europe around 4,000 BC, but there is very little evidence of their civilisation, which is thought to have made the first use of metal.
5x06 Aston Eyre, Shropshire - Medieval manor house
08 February, 1998 6:00 pm
The team travel to a Shropshire farm house in Aston Eyre and discover the great hall of a medieval manor complex.
5x07 Downpatrick, County Down - St Patrick's First Church
22 February, 1998 6:00 pm
The team travel to Downpatrick in Northern Ireland to excavate one of Britain's most important religious sites. Upon Cathedral Hill is the site of the first settlement of St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
5x08 High Worsall, North Yorkshire - Medieval Village
01 March, 1998 6:00 pm
In this episode, the 'Time Team' are in Worsall, near Middlesbrough. The archaeology fanatics have just three days to solve the mystery of why the population of a medieval village disappeared into thin air.
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