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Time Team's eighth series has seen the Team digging up a Norman castle, investigating a bone cave in Gloucestershire and looking for an Iron-Age village on Salisbury Plain – in the middle of a tank-training zone! Links to the programmes in the 2001 series are listed below.
The Real King Arthur
24 December 2000
Time Team is on a quest, searching for the truth behind the myth, mystery and multi-million-pound industry which has grown up around Arthur – the alleged 'King of the Britons'.
The Time Team History of Britain
27 December 2000
Time Team takes a trip from the Palaeolithic to the present and plots the nation's past through the finds and revelations made across the last seven series. The Team pays a visit to classic UK archaeological sites, such as Grimes Graves and Bede's World, and examines key digs from programmes past to look at how archaeologists have interpreted the nation's history.
The Mystery of Mine Howe
27 December 2000
The Team travels to Orkney, where local farmer Douglas Paterson went in search of a mysterious underground chamber, said to be lost on his land after its discovery some 50 years earlier.
An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Lincs
7 January 2001
In search of an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery amidst the remains of a Roman settlement in Lincolnshire
Behind the Scenes at Time Team
7 January 2001
A programme that had its genesis in suggestions made on the Time Team Forum, this special programme looked behind the scenes at some of the things that you don't usually see in the normal Time Team programmes.
The Man Who Bought a Castle, Alderton, Northants
14 January 2001
When local man Derek Batten bought the site of a castle at Alderton, Northants, he was unable to discover very much else about it. So he contacted Time Team. The Team's task was to find out who built it, when, and how much of it remains.
The Celtic Spring, Llygadwy, Wales
21 January 2001
A Stone-Age megalith, a Neolithic tomb, an early chapel, a Norman tower and a sacred spring, all within a stone's throw of each other. But not everything is as it seems. Time Team gets involved in an archaeological detective story.
Waltham Villa, Gloucestershire
28 January 2001
Alerted by Gloucester County Archaeology, the Team comes in search of a Roman villa. The last time this happened, at Turkdean, also in Gloucestershire, the site turned out to be so good that Time Team couldn't resist returning for a second look. What would happen this time?
The 'Lost Viaduct', Blaenafon, south Wales
4 February 2001
The biggest hole the Team has ever dug takes us in search of the world's first railway viaduct at the site of the former Blaenafon iron works, in south Wales.
A Palace Sold for Scrap, Rycote, Oxfordshire
11 February 2001
Time Team came to Rycote Park, in Oxfordshire, to try to find the remains of a grand country house that once played host to five reigning monarchs. What was left of the original Tudor mansion, built in the 1520s and believed to have burnt down and been abandoned in 1745?
An Iron-Age Roundhouse on Salisbury Plain
18 February 2001
Time Team was called in to investigate a site on Salisbury Plain believed to contain the remains of settlements spanning both the Iron Age and the Roman era. The aim was to find sufficient evidence to get the site scheduled by English Heritage – so protecting it for the future.
The Inter-City Villa, Basildon, Berkshire
25 February 2001
In 1838, navvies laying Brunel's Great Western Railway found two Roman floor mosaics, probably from a villa, at Lower Basildon, in Berkshire. The mosaics were broken up and the site almost forgotten until recent aerial photographs revealed a series of crop marks in the fields by the railway. Did Brunel's Great Western cut through a Roman villa? And what else might Time Team find in these fields?
The Bone Cave, Alveston, Gloucestershire: Special
1 March 2001
A tiny entrance to a cave in a Gloucestershire village leads to a grim discovery. For here two cavers found the floor littered with animal – and human – bones. In fact, they found bones from at least three different people. Who were they? And how did they meet what turned out to be their rather grisly ends? Find out more and take our virtual trip around the dig.
Holy Island
4 March 2001
Time Team came to investigate a field in the middle of Holy Island's village, known locally, for no obvious reason, as 'the palace'. Was there a palace in Palace Field? And if so, why was Phil making beer barrels?
Coventry's Lost Cathedral: Special return report
8 March 2001
Coventry's first cathedral was thought to have been virtually obliterated by Henry VIII. But a great deal more has survived than expected. Time Team was sent back to Coventry to catch up on the excavation – and the website has exclusive video clips with news from the site.
The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth, Shropshire
11 March 2001
Charles I described the view from Bridgnorth Castle as 'the finest in my domain'. All that's left of the castle now is its leaning tower and a few scattered fragments of castle walls. Time Team set out to discover what it would have looked like in its heyday.
Three Tales of Canterbury
18 March 2001
Catch up on last year's Time Team Live at Canterbury, where Time Team excavated three sites. One was in search of a Roman temple; another the first Franciscan priory in Britain; and the third a medieval tile-making factory.
The Leper Hospital, Winchester
25 March 2001
A mile outside Winchester is a field which, 900 years ago, was home to the city's outcasts. The people who lived there were united by a terrible bond – leprosy. Their home was the St Mary Magdalene leper hospital. Time Team set out to discover what was left of it under the grass.
The Island of the Eels
Digging deep into old Ely
17 May 2001
Time Team has been following an excavation in Ely, Cambridgeshire, for a 90-minute documentary screened on 17 May. It has uncovered a remarkable picture of Ely in past centuries: channels where boats used to moor to load and unload goods; a medieval kiln with huge quantities of high-quality pottery finds; and a number of buildings fronting the road at Broad Street.
Dinosaurs
Montana
23 December 2001
Time Team's Tony Robinson and Phil Harding travelled to the Rocky Mountains in Montana, USA, for this special programme on dinosaurs and the 'dinosaur hunters' who discover and dig up their fossil remains. The methods used by the dinosaur hunters turned out to be very similar to those employed by archaeologists. And although Phil found he was making more use of a hammer and chisel than his usual digger's trowel, there was much more with which he was familiar from archaeological excavations.
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