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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9x01 Vauxhall, London - London's First Bridge
06 January, 2002 6:00 pm
The team are in central London near Vauxhall Bridge where, at low tide, a group of mysterious prehistoric timbers are revealed. The team have just three days to excavate just one of these strange timbers.
9x02 Ancaster, Lincolnshire - The Roman's Panic
13 January, 2002 6:00 pm
The small Lincolnshire town of Ancaster lies on Ermine Street, which is a major Roman road heading north from London. The only Roman remains visible today are some massive earth banks and ditches, which have been dated to the 4th century. So what was here before these defences and why were they built?
9x03 Kinlochbervie, Scotland - Diving For The Armada
20 January, 2002 6:00 pm
The team investigate a beautiful jar found amongst the seaweed at Kinlochbervie to determine whether it could have belonged to the Spanish Armada.
9x04 Chicksands, Bedfordshire - The Naughty Monastery
27 January, 2002 6:00 pm
The team are invited to the Military Intelligence base at Chicksands to explore the site of a thirteenth-century unisex monastery.
9x05 Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire - The Furnace In The Cellar
03 February, 2002 6:00 pm
The team digs up a pub car park near Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire to find the remains of a seventeenth-century blast furnace for smelting iron.
9x06 Cheshunt, Hertfordshire - An Ermine Street Pub
10 February, 2002 6:00 pm
The team search for the remains of a Roman settlement in Cheshunt where Roman brick, tiles and pottery were excavated in the 1960's.
9x07 Helford, Cornwall - Iron-Age Market
17 February, 2002 6:00 pm
The team investigate Cornwall's most important Iron Age site overlooking the Helston River. The area is so big that its purpose is a mystery. Can they solve the riddle?
9x08 High Ercall, Shropshire - Siege House In Shropshire
24 February, 2002 6:00 pm
The team are in Shropshire at the location of one of the bloodiest Civil War sieges - the manor house in High Ercall.
9x09 Throckmorton, Worcestershire - A Prehistoric Airfield
03 March, 2002 6:00 pm
The team explores a disused RAF bomber base, which is revealed by a government geophysics survey to be a dense Iron Age or Bronze Age settlement.
9x10 Castleford, Yorkshire - A Lost Roman City
10 March, 2002 6:00 pm
The team are in Yorkshire to help the locals put Castleford on the Roman map by digging up a car park, a football pitch and the yard of the local British Legion.
9x11 Beaudesert, Warwickshire - Every Castle Needs A Lord
17 March, 2002 6:00 pm
A single stone stands on a hill at Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. It's the only remnant of what was once a huge medieval castle. So where is the rest of this once-proud stronghold?
9x12 Brading, Isle of Wight - Steptoe Et Filius
24 March, 2002 6:00 pm
The archaeological acumen of the Time Team is tested against the clock, shedding fascinating light on important aspects of Britain's past. On the east coast of the Isle of Wight where early Roman pottery and metalwork have been found, but as yet, there have been no buildings.
9x13 New Forest, Hampshire - Seven Buckets And A Buckle
31 March, 2002 6:00 pm
Byzantine 'buckets'; Anglo-Saxon spear heads, shields and shield bosses; a disproportionate number of double burials. The cemetery that Time Team excavated for the 2001 'Live' opened an important new window onto the 'Dark Ages'.
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