The Big Roman Villa: A Time Team Special

Back in 2002, Time Team was invited to excavate a bare field at Dinnington in Somerset. It turned out to be one of the most remarkable digs that the Team had ever undertaken. Just eight inches beneath the surface were the remains of some fabulous mosaics, which had once formed the floors of rooms in a huge Roman villa. A villa so big, in fact, that in the three days of that initial dig, screened as part of the 2003 series (Mosaics, mosaics, mosaics, 12 January 2003), the Team was only able to get a glimpse of its size and layout.

The site was so tantalising and puzzling that Time Team returned three years later, this time with live camera crews for the Big Roman Dig series of programmes, a week long exploration of Roman Britain screened in June 2005. The Big Roman Villa Time Team Special tells the story of how the Team brought to light one of the most important and previously unknown villas in Roman Britain.

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