Time Team Digs

Series 1 Episode 1
First Broadcast: Fri 1 November 2002

This programme looks at the Bronze Age, as the Team revisit an ancient bridge in Vauxhall, and a track in Peterborough.

    1. Series 1 Episode 1 Time Team Digs... The Bronze Age

      This programme looks at the Bronze Age, as the Team revisit an ancient bridge in Vauxhall, and a track in Peterborough.

    2. Series 1 Episode 2 Time Team Digs... The Iron Age

      Tony Robinson looks back at what the Time Team have learnt about the Iron Age. Far from being a place of wild savages…

    3. Series 1 Episode 3 Time Team Digs... The Early Romans

      Tony Robinson looks back at what the Time Team have learned about the early years of the Roman occupation.

    4. Series 1 Episode 4 Time Team Digs... The Late Romans

      Tony Robinson looks back at what the Time Team have learnt about Roman Britain.

    5. Series 1 Episode 5 Time Team Digs... The Dark Ages

      Tony Robinson looks back at what Time Team have discovered about the Dark Ages through numerous digs.

    6. Series 1 Episode 6 Medieval Britain

      Tony Robinson and the team go back to re-examine some of their finest discoveries, looking at objects they have…

    7. Series 1 Episode 7 The Modern Age

      Tony Robinson, with the help of David Gainster from the British Museum, looks back at what the Time Team have learned…

    8. Series 1 Episode 8 The Norman Conquest

      Starting just after 1066, Tony Robinson looks back at what the Team have learned about the conquest of Britain by…

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