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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, including those which were linked in some way to antiquarians, archaeologists, designers, and historical figures.

This page lists the episodes from Seasons 11 - 15, including the following:

Season 11

Episode 1 "In Search of the Brigittine Abbey" (Syon House, London)
- Founded by Henry V, built by Henry VI, eventually re-landscaped by "Capability" Brown
Episode 2 "A Roman Bath House and Edwardian Folly" (Whitestaunton Manor, Somerset)
- Discovered 1882 by Charles Isaac Elton; a folly re-using Roman stonework - or is it a bath house?
Episode 3 "The Crannog in the Loch" (Loch Migdale, Scottish Highlands)
- A pile of stones turns out to be a crannog, and a henge, and then more memorials appear
Episode 4 "Saxon Burials on the Ridge" (South Carlton, Lincolnshire)
Episode 5 "The Roman Fort That Wasn't There" (Syndale, Kent)
- Syndale is thought (logically) to be the site of the first Roman fort - but is it? Phil digs in full Roman armour.
Episode 6 "An Iron-Age Trading Centre" (Green Island, Dorset)
- Investigating a possible Iron Age international trading port on Green Island in Poole Harbour
Episode 7 "A Medieval Blast Furnace" (The Old Furnace, Oakamoor, Staffordshire)
- Looking for the ironworks that were the brainchild of Sir Francis Willoughby and Bess of Hardwick
Episode 8 "Rescuing a Mesolithic Foreshore" (Goldcliff, Newport)
- A spectacular view of Mesolithic footprints in the mud
Episode 9 "Fertile Soils, Rich Archaeology" (Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire)
- A newt-infested site hides a possible Iron Age settlement
Episode 10 "King Cnut's Manor" (Nassington, Northamptonshire)
- Searching under someone's living room for the manor house of King Cnut
Episode 11 "Back-Garden Archaeology Revisiting a Roman villa" (Ipswich, Suffolk)
- Roman archaeology excavated by Basil Brown. Introducing the new phrase: "It's been Basilled"
Episode 12 "The Lost City of Roxburgh" (Roxburgh, Scottish Borders)
- David I, King of Scotland, chose Roxburgh as his power base - but then it disappeared
Episode 13 "Brimming with Remains" (Cranborne Chase, Dorset)
- Roman archaeology discovered by farmer's pigs, plus Tony is educated on the changes in burial practices through time. Phil digs accompanied by chickens

Season 12

Episode 1 "The Manor That's Back to Front" (Chenies Manor House, Buckinghamshire)
- Built by Sir John Russell, visited by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Carenza learns the basics of falconry
Episode 2 "The Monastery and the Mansion" (Nether Poppleton, Yorkshire)
Episode 3 "The Bombers in the Marsh" (Warton near Preston, Lancashire)
- Crash investigation meets archaeology as the team hunts for two airplanes which crashed in 1944
Episode 4 "Fighting on the Frontier" (Drumlanrig, Dumfries and Galloway)
- An early fort (built by Agricola) transforms into a 2nd-century fort built by Antoninus Pius. Helen helps create a Roman standard - a draco, whose eerie noise was intended to frighten
Episode 5 "A Neolithic Cathedral?" (Northborough, Peterborough)
- Phil makes a Neolithic bowl
Episode 6 "In Search of Henry V's Flagship, Grace Dieu" (Bursledon, Hampshire)
- More underwater archaeology to locate the wreck of Henry V's ship Grace Dieu, including deep-sea sonar technology. Damien looks into how the ship was designed and built
Episode 7 "Going Upmarket with the Romans" (Standish, Gloucestershire)
- 600 years of the history of an ordinary Iron Age farming family
Episode 8 "Picts and Hermits: Cave Dwellers of Fife" (Wemyss, Fife)
- Rescuing valuable Pictish archaeology before it is eroded away
Episode 9 "Lost Centuries of St Osyth" (St Osyth, Essex)
Episode 10 "The Puzzle of Picket's Farm" (South Perrott, Dorset)
Episode 11 "Norman Neighbours" (Skipsea, East Riding of Yorkshire)
Episode 12 "Hunting the Romans in South Shields - Tower Blocks and Togas" (South Shields, Tyne and Wear)
- Matt spends 24 hours as a Roman trooper
Episode 13 "Animal Farm" (Hanslope, Milton Keynes)

Season 13

Episode 1 "The Bodies in the Shed - Glendon's Lost Graveyard" (Glendon, Northamptonshire)
Episode 2 "Villas out of Molehills" (Withington, Gloucestershire)
- Mosaic tesserae unearthed by moles were followed by excavations by antiquarian Samuel Lysons in 1811-1812
Episode 3 "Rubble at the Mill" (Manchester)
- Searching for the first cotton mill (1780), built by Richard Arkwright, using an engine by Thomas Newcomen.
Episode 4 "The First Tudor Palace?" (Esher, Surrey)
- Locating the magnificent palace/castle built by Bishop William Waynflete
Episode 5 "The Boat on the Rhine - A Roman Boat in Utrecht" (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Episode 6 "Court of the Kentish King" (Eastry, Kent)
Episode 7 "The Monks' Manor" (Brimham, Harrogate, Yorkshire)
- Matt spends 24 hours as a lay brother while the others locate a grange belonging to Fountains Abbey
Episode 8, "Castle in the Round" (Isle of Sheppey, Kent)
- Investigations concentrate on the unusual round castle built by Edward III for his French queen, Philippa of Hainault
Episode 9, "Sussex Ups and Downs" (Blackpatch, Sussex)
- This episode features 1930s archaeologist John Pull and his excavations in Sussex
Episode 10, "Birthplace of the Confessor" (Islip, Oxfordshire)
- Investigation into whether or not Islip is the birthplace of Edward the Confessor
Episode 11 "Early Bath" (Ffrith, Flintshire)
Episode 12, "The Taxman's Tavern" (Alfoldean, Sussex)
- Discovery of a Roman mansio, an overnight hotel on Staines Street, originally excavated by Samuel Winbolt in the 1920s
Episode 13 "Scotch Broch" (Applecross near Skye, Scottish Highlands)
- "Is it a broch?" "It's not not a broch..."

Season 14

Episode 1 "Finds on the Fairway" (Isle of Man)
- Digging in the tail end of a hurricane, the team finds cist burials, a stone showing the Ogham script - and a thousand-year-old skeleton with hair
Episode 2 "There's No Place Like Rome" (Blacklands, near Frome, Somerset)
Episode 3 "School Diggers Medieval" (Hooke Court, Dorset)
- Investigating Hooke Court, previously owned by John Paulet, well-known Royalist figure
Episode 4 "The Druids' Last Stand" (Amlwch, Anglesey)
Episode 5, "Sharpe's Redoubt" (Sandgate, Kent)
- Investigating the Redoubt designed by William Twiss. Includes mention of General Sir John Moore
Episode 6 "A Port and Stilton" (Stilton, Cambridgeshire)
Episode 7 "A Tale of Two Villages" (Wicken, Northamptonshire)
- Merged in 1587, two villages show signs of Saxon origin - or do they?
Episode 8 "No Stone Unturned" (Warburton, Greater Manchester)
Episode 9 "The Domesday Mill" (Dotton, Devon)
- Excavating the mill at Dotton with ties to the miller: Joel Roger Carter
Episode 10 "The Cheyne Gang" (Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire)
- Looking for the 1429 manor house of the infamous Cheyne family. Mentioning John Wycliffe and the Amersham Martyrs
Episode 11 "Road to the Relics" (Godstone, Surrey)
Episode 12 "The Abbey Habit" (Poulton, Cheshire)
- Trying to locate the lost Sistertian abbey depopulated by the Earl of Chester, Ranulph le Briquessart
Episode 13 "In the Shadow of the Tor" (Bodmin Moor, Cornwall)
- Neolithic society is explored in a site on Rough (pronounced Rowe to rhyme with 'doe') Tor, first excavated by local archaeologist Dorothy Dudley in the 1950s

Season 15

Episode 1 "Gold in the Moat" (Codnor Castle, Derbyshire)
- Following the fortunes of the de Grey family and Codnor Castle. Includes that gold coin of Henry V!
Episode 2 "Street of the Dead" (Binchester, Co Durham)
- Further investigations into a site originally excavated by Rev E R Hooppell
Episode 3 "Bodies in the Dunes" (Allasdale, Barra, Western Isles (Outer Hebrides))
Episode 4 "The Naughty Nuns of Northampton" (Towcester, Northamptonshire)
Episode 5 "Mysteries of the Mosaic" (Coberley, Gloucestershire)
Episode 6 "Blitzkrieg on Shooter's Hill" (South London)
- Investigating World War II defences on Shooter's Hill (and they found a Bronze Age metalworking site as well!) Phil and Matt get into 'period uniform' for basic training in the Home Guard
Episode 7 "Keeping up with the Georgians" (Hunstrete, Somerset)
- Searching for Hunstrete Mansion, designed by Francis Popham, demolished by General Edward Leyborne-Popham
Episode 8 "Saxons on the Edge" (Stonton Wyville, Leicestershire)
- Time Team finally finds an Anglo-Saxon hall after 15 years' searching
Episode 9 "Fort of the Earls" (Dungannon, Northern Ireland)
- Locating the castle of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, who resisted English rule
Episode 10 "From Constantinople to Cornwall" (Padstow, North Cornwall)
- A fascinating geophys report of groups of possible roundhouses prompts an excavation. Exotic pottery from abroad shows how the site was a centre for international trade
Episode 11 "Five Thousand Tons of Stone" (Hamsterley, County Durham)
Episode 12 "The Romans Recycle" Wickenby, Lincolnshire
- A Roman site flooded with brooches divides the opinions of the specialists as to its purpose
Episode 13 "Hunting King Harold" (Portskewett, Monmouthshire)
- Looking for the hunting lodge of King Harold

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Seasons 16-19
Seasons 20-21
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Sources

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