Time Team Specials

Britain's Drowned World (76 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9.45PM Saturday 28 Nov More4

Ten thousand years ago, before sea levels rose at the end of Ice Age, a huge area of land connected Britain to the European continent.

More

The Secrets of Stonehenge (76 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9PM Monday 01 Jun 2009 Channel 4

Stonehenge is the nation's most famous monument. For centuries, its age and purpose have been subject to speculation, excavation and fantasy. But over the last six years, a huge new team…

More

The Wreck of the Colossus (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 9PM Wednesday 15 Apr 2009 More4

In 2001, divers discovered one of the most exciting naval artefacts ever found in British waters, part of the wreck of the 18th century warship The Colossus. This Time Team special follows…

More

The Real Knights of the Round Table (48 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 11.40PM Saturday 28 Mar 2009 More4

Over the August bank holiday weekend in 2006, the Big Royal Dig saw Time Team exploring the royal palaces of Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh, Buckingham Palace, in London, and Windsor Castle…

More

The Ten Million Pound House (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 7.55PM Saturday 21 Mar 2009 More4

Hidden away in Kent is an architectural gem, a building that is important not because it's bigger or better than any other but because it has survived, complete with all the many changes…

More

Loch Tay (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 7.55PM Saturday 14 Mar 2009 More4

In the summer of 2003, a small crew from Time Team spent eight weeks in the beautiful setting of Loch Tay, Perthshire, in Scotland. They were filming the ongoing underwater excavation of…

More

Journey to Stonehenge (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9PM Saturday 07 Feb 2009 More4

In a major excavation, archaeologists link the henge at Durrington to its more famous neighbour, Stonehenge, and uncover an extraordinary picture of Stone Age life.

More

Pugin: The God of Gothic (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 11PM Saturday 31 Jan 2009 More4

Tony Robinson and Kevin McCloud take a journey into the world of architect and designer Augustus Pugin and follow the renovation of his former home, The Grange in Ramsgate.

More

Ainsbrook (48 mins)

First Broadcast: 8PM Monday 26 Jan 2009 Channel 4

In late 2003 two metal detectorists were working in a field in Yorkshire. They found 'treasure' buried just beneath the surface - a collection of Viking material next to a body.

More

Buried by the Blitz (50 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 11.05PM Saturday 24 Jan 2009 More4

During World War II, the Blitz destroyed countless homes, factories and civil defences. Dorchester Street in Shoreditch was one of thousands of streets in London that were bombed…

More

Hadrian's Well (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 11PM Saturday 17 Jan 2009 More4

While digging a huge site in the middle of London, archaeologists uncovered two extraordinary Roman cisterns. At the bottom of each lay the remains of a complex mechanism for drawing water…

More

The Mystery of the Roman Treasure (48 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 7PM Friday 26 Dec 2008 Channel 4

Somewhere in the Roman empire at the end of the 4th century lived a very rich man. The man's name was Sevso. How he got his wealth and what he did during his life are lost in the mists of…

More

Swords, Skulls and Strongholds (48 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9PM Friday 19 Dec 2008 More4

They are among the most striking features of the British landscape. Moulded to the contours of some of our highest hills and most dramatic scenery, perched on clifftops and ridges, and…

More

The Lost Dock of Liverpool (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 8.05PM Saturday 29 Nov 2008 Channel 4

Time Team came to Liverpool for this special documentary as the city celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2007 and prepared for its role as European City of Culture in 2008.

More

Life on the Edge 1000 BC (50 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 10.45PM Saturday 22 Nov 2008 More4

Three thousand years ago the banks of the River Witham, just outside Lincoln, were bustling with activity. Archaeologists knew that buried just below the surface of this fenland would be…

More

The King of Bling (50 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 10.25PM Saturday 15 Nov 2008 More4

A chance discovery by archaeologists in Southend reveals an Anglo-Saxon tomb crammed with such impressive gold artefacts that the tabloids dubbed the occupant 'the King of Bling'.

More

D-Day (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 9.25PM Saturday 15 Nov 2008 More4

On the morning of 6 June 1944 Allied troops landed in France to attack Hitler's 'Fortress Europe' and begin the liberation of the continent.

More

The Lost WWI Bunker (75 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9PM Monday 10 Nov 2008 Channel 4

Tony Robinson joins an unprecedented archaeological expedition in Belgium to search for a bunker, or dugout, from the Great War known as the Vampir.

More

Includes images of the death and destruction of World War One

The Big Roman Villa (49 mins)

First Broadcast: Sunday 08 Jan 2006 Channel 4

The story of the biggest villa excavation in this country for 50 years, some of the finest mosaics ever discovered and a classic story of the growing wealth and opulence of the Romans in…

More

Britain's Lost Roman Circus (50 mins)

After three years of painstaking work just outside Colchester's Roman walls, archaeologists knew they had found something unusual. Around the parallel walls that had enclosed a huge…

More

Christmas Special 1999 (50 mins)

Tony Robinson presents this seasonal episode of Time Team from York's Barley Hall, where an extravagant Medieval Christmas celebration is in full swing.

More

Dinosaur Hunting (50 mins)

Tony Robinson and Phil Harding hit the highways of America on a road trip to some of the dinosaur capitals of the world.

More

Jamestown: America's Birth Place (49 mins)

Thirteen years before the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth in the Mayflower, 105 men in three ships established the first permanent English settlement on the American continent. They…

More

Secrets of the Stately Garden (49 mins)

Behind the elegance of the stately gardens that now define the British landscape lies a story that combines exotic exploration, scientific innovation and revolutionary thought, not to…

More

Steel City (50 mins)

The team follow ARCUS, the Archaeological Research and Consultancy at the University of Sheffield, on some of its excavations into Sheffield's industrial past.

More