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Tony Robinson, with the help of David Gainster from the British Museum, looks back at what Time Team has learned about the modern age in digs from the past ten years.
From the lost glories of the Tudor palace at Richmond-on-Thames, now reduced to just a gatehouse, the Team travels through time; uncovering an Armada wreck at Kinlochbervie, in Scotland; and visiting a great Civil War site at Basing, along the way.
The Team enters the industrial era by finding Josiah Wedgwood's first revolutionary pottery factory in Burslem; it digs its biggest hole yet, searching for a lost railway viaduct in Blaenafon, south Wales; and in Birmingham, it excavates part of what in the 18th century was the biggest factory in the world.
Past excavations covered in the programme include:
Blaenafon, in south Wales, where 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.
Basing, where the earthworks and ruins that make up one of Hampshire's most atmospheric historic locations are all that remain of what was once perhaps the largest private residence in England.
Josiah Wedgwood's revolutionary first pottery factory at Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
Kinlochbervie, in Scotland, where the Team went underwater in search of what they could discover about a Spanish Armada shipwreck.
Richmond-on-Thames, where Time Team excavated – beneath a pristine croquet lawn – the privy lodgings of Elizabeth I at Richmond Palace, which she inherited from her father Henry VIII and where she died.
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