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Series 12 Episode 1 The Manor That's Back to Front, Chenies Manor (49 mins)
9PM Wednesday 01 Jul 2009 More4
Tony and the Team visit Chenies Manor as they hope to discover what the house would have looked like when Henry VIII stayed there.
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Series 9 Episode 6 An Ermine Street Pub, Cheshunt (49 mins)
1.15PM Saturday 27 Jun 2009 More4
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, two families of amateur archaeologists began excavating some Roman remains in what is now a public park in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. They were told to keep quiet about…
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Series 9 Episode 5 The Furnace in the Cellar, Ironbridge (49 mins)
12.10PM Saturday 27 Jun 2009 More4
This programme takes Time Team back to the earliest beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in the area now known as the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire.
In the village of Leighton the Team is…
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Series 9 Episode 4 The Naughty Monastery, Chicksands (50 mins)
11.10AM Saturday 27 Jun 2009 More4
The Chicksands military base in the heart of Bedfordshire is home to the joint armed services intelligence departments. Very hush hush, as they used to say in the 1940s.
Time Team was invited there…
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Series 9 Episode 3 Diving for the Armada, Kinlochbervie (50 mins)
10.05AM Saturday 27 Jun 2009 More4
Originally discovered by divers from RAF Lossemouth three years ago, an amazing shipwreck lies some 20 metres down on the seabed just off the coast of Kinlochbervie, in north-west Scotland.
Finds…
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Series 14 Episode 1 Finds in the Fairway, Isle of Man (49 mins)
9PM Wednesday 24 Jun 2009 More4
The Isle of Man may be a small and - particularly when Time Team was there - wet and windy island stuck in the middle of the Irish Sea. But it's crammed full of influences from British, Irish and…
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Series 9 Episode 2 The Romans Panic, Lincolnshire (50 mins)
12.40PM Saturday 20 Jun 2009 More4
The small Lincolnshire town of Ancaster lies on Ermine Street, which is a major Roman road heading north from London.
The only Roman remains visible today are some massive earth banks and ditches…
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Series 9 Episode 1 London's First Bridge, Vauxhall (49 mins)
11.35AM Saturday 20 Jun 2009 More4
On the foreshore of the river Thames, just opposite the MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall, London, some old timbers - a series of posts or piles driven into the riverbed - have been discovered peeping out…
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Series 10 Episode 13 Jailhouse Rocks, Appleby, Cumbria (50 mins)
10.35AM Saturday 20 Jun 2009 More4
Tony Robinson heads off to the old market town of Appleby in Cumbria and is brought face to face with the hardships of our early prisons.
A police station is on the site of no fewer than three…
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Series 10 Episode 12 A View to a Kiln, Sedgefield (49 mins)
9.30AM Saturday 20 Jun 2009 More4
Some startling aerial photos of fields outside Sedgefield look like a lost Roman town - a town that would be the most northerly Roman civilian settlement.
Can Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Phil…
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Series 13 Episode 4 The First Tudor Palace? Esher, Surrey (49 mins)
9PM Wednesday 17 Jun 2009 More4
Penny Rainbow's house on the river Mole, in Esher, is unlike any other in Surrey's swish stockbroker belt. Now known as Wayneflete Tower, it is also sometimes referred to as Wolsey's Tower on account…
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Series 10 Episode 10 Rescuing the Dead, Leven, Fife (50 mins)
12.10PM Saturday 13 Jun 2009 More4
A rare Bronze Age cemetery is the prompt for Tony and the Team to take on a rescue mission in Fife, Scotland.
Developers are keen to move on to the land and there is just time to uncover and…
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Series 10 Episode 9 Looking for the White House, Kew Gardens (50 mins)
11.05AM Saturday 13 Jun 2009 More4
Time Team travel to Kew Gardens. Kew Gardens is world famous, but how many visitors know they're walking on top of a lost royal palace?
King George III built himself a fine residence here but…
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Series 10 Episode 8 Back to Our Roots, Athelney (50 mins)
10.05AM Saturday 13 Jun 2009 More4
To mark the 100th episode, Tony Robinson and the Time Team return to a site they investigated in the very first series.
Athelney is one of England's most important historic sites, where King Alfred…
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Series 16
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Series 16 Episode 13 Skeletons in the Shed: Blythburgh, Suffolk (49 mins)
When the new owners of a house in Blythburgh in Suffolk explored their potting shed they were shocked to discover a cupboard full of human skulls. Could these remains have something to do with what's…
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Series 16 Episode 12 Buried Bishops and Belfries: Salisbury Cathedral (49 mins)
Tony Robinson and the team get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dig in the hallowed grounds of Salisbury Cathedral. Over three days the archaeologists reveal the long-lost original bell tower…
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Series 16 Episode 11 Heroes' Hill: Knockdhu, Co Antrim (49 mins)
The headland at Knockdhu on the County Antrim coast offers breathtaking views, and also one of the most testing digs Time Team have ever undertaken: excavating the massive ditches and banks dug by…
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Series 16 Episode 10 Called to the Bar: Lincoln's Inn, London (49 mins)
Tony Robinson and the Team don their wigs and best suits in the hope of blending in with the posh surroundings of Lincoln's Inn, London. Amid the grand buildings that make up one of the world's…
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Series 16 Episode 9 Mystery of the Ice Cream Villa: Colworth, Bedfordshire (49 mins)
The Team are invited to investigate a Bedfordshire field by a group of amateur archaeologists who also just happen to be experts in the science of ice cream! Countless pieces of Roman pottery, coins…
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Series 16 Episode 8 Blood, Sweat and Beers: Risehill, North Yorkshire (49 mins)
Tony Robinson ventures to the wild and windswept heights of the Yorkshire Dales to uncover a story of murder, suicide and heroic endurance against the elements. In an archaeological first, Time Team…
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Series 16 Episode 7 Toga Town: Caerwent, South Wales (49 mins)
Tony Robinson and the Team investigate Caerwent in South Wales, one of Britain's best kept secrets. Apparently just a small village well off any main road, it is in fact the country's best preserved…
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Series 16 Episode 6 The Trouble with Temples: Friar's Wash, Hertfordshire (48 mins)
For the last 15 years, finding even one Roman temple has eluded the Team. So when they travel to a field in Hertfordshire, they are as enthusiastic as ever, although not exactly optimistic. So…
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Series 16 Episode 5 Hermit Harbour: Looe, Cornwall (49 mins)
The Team descend on a tiny Cornish island that legend says was once visited by Jesus Christ. With such a claim to fame, the tiny chapel on Looe Island became a magnet for medieval pilgrims. Over…
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Series 16 Episode 4 Anarchy in the UK: Radcot, Oxfordshire (49 mins)
A peaceful waterside field beside the oldest bridge over the higher reaches of the River Thames in Oxfordshire poses the perfect setting for a Time Team assault. Their mission? To uncover what looks…
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Series 16 Episode 3 The Wedding Present: Scargill, County Durham (49 mins)
Ten years ago two archaeologists got married. The groom bought for his beloved bride a wreck of a building, Scargill Castle, in the remote wilds of County Durham. This decrepit gatehouse and…
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Series 16 Episode 2 The Hollow Way: Ulnaby, County Durham (49 mins)
The distinctive grass-covered remains of the deserted medieval village of Ulnaby are a landmark in the Durham countryside. And although they've been photographed, surveyed and written about, they've…
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Series 16 Episode 1 Beacon of the Fens: Warboys, The Fens (49 mins)
Set in the flat, windswept expanse of the Fens, this little mound of earth known as Chapel Hill has intrigued archaeologists for years. The landowners have found ornately carved stone blocks around…
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Series 14
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Series 14 Episode 1 Finds in the Fairway, Isle of Man (49 mins)
9PM Wednesday 24 Jun 2009 More4
The Isle of Man may be a small and - particularly when Time Team was there - wet and windy island stuck in the middle of the Irish Sea. But it's crammed full of influences from British, Irish and…
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Series 13
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Series 13 Episode 4 The First Tudor Palace? Esher, Surrey (49 mins)
9PM Wednesday 17 Jun 2009 More4
Penny Rainbow's house on the river Mole, in Esher, is unlike any other in Surrey's swish stockbroker belt. Now known as Wayneflete Tower, it is also sometimes referred to as Wolsey's Tower on account…
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Series 12
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Series 12 Episode 1 The Manor That's Back to Front, Chenies Manor (49 mins)
9PM Wednesday 01 Jul 2009 More4
Tony and the Team visit Chenies Manor as they hope to discover what the house would have looked like when Henry VIII stayed there.
More
Series 10
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Series 10 Episode 13 Jailhouse Rocks, Appleby, Cumbria (50 mins)
10.35AM Saturday 20 Jun 2009 More4
Tony Robinson heads off to the old market town of Appleby in Cumbria and is brought face to face with the hardships of our early prisons.
A police station is on the site of no fewer than three…
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Series 10 Episode 12 A View to a Kiln, Sedgefield (49 mins)
9.30AM Saturday 20 Jun 2009 More4
Some startling aerial photos of fields outside Sedgefield look like a lost Roman town - a town that would be the most northerly Roman civilian settlement.
Can Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, Phil…
More -
Series 10 Episode 10 Rescuing the Dead, Leven, Fife (50 mins)
12.10PM Saturday 13 Jun 2009 More4
A rare Bronze Age cemetery is the prompt for Tony and the Team to take on a rescue mission in Fife, Scotland.
Developers are keen to move on to the land and there is just time to uncover and…
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Series 10 Episode 9 Looking for the White House, Kew Gardens (50 mins)
11.05AM Saturday 13 Jun 2009 More4
Time Team travel to Kew Gardens. Kew Gardens is world famous, but how many visitors know they're walking on top of a lost royal palace?
King George III built himself a fine residence here but…
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Series 10 Episode 8 Back to Our Roots, Athelney (50 mins)
10.05AM Saturday 13 Jun 2009 More4
To mark the 100th episode, Tony Robinson and the Time Team return to a site they investigated in the very first series.
Athelney is one of England's most important historic sites, where King Alfred…
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Series 9
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Series 9 Episode 15 Londinium, Edge of Empire (77 mins)
Two thousand years ago, London didn't exist. It was created by the Romans in the first century AD, when they settled in the area now occupied by the City. The settlement started as a simple bridge…
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Series 9 Episode 14 The Big Dig in Canterbury (77 mins)
It's been described as the most ambitious archaeological project Britain has ever known. One eighth of the entire ancient city of Canterbury is being excavated in advance of a massive redevelopment…
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Series 9 Episode 13 Seven Buckets and a Buckle, Breamore, Hampshire (50 mins)
Byzantine 'buckets', Anglo-Saxon spear heads, shields, a disproportionate number of double burials - the cemetery that Time Team excavated for the 2001 'Live' opened an important new window onto the…
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Series 9 Episode 12 Steptoe et Filius, Isle of Wight (50 mins)
When a water-pipe trench was recently being dug across a field at Yaverland, on the Isle of Wight, a local archaeologist discovered evidence of Roman occupation on the site.
Although he had time to…
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Series 9 Episode 11 Every Castle Needs a Lord, Warwickshire (50 mins)
A single stone stands on a hill at Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire.
It's the only remnant of what was once a huge medieval castle. So where is the rest of this once-proud stronghold?
Time Team has…
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Series 9 Episode 10 A Lost Roman City, Castleford (49 mins)
This programme sees Time Team travelling north and back in time to the Roman period.
The Yorkshire town of Castleford, though home to a successful rugby team, has fallen on hard times. The people…
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Series 9 Episode 9 A Prehistoric Airfield, Throckmorton (49 mins)
A disused RAF bomber base, with one of the longest runways in the country, currently covers a large area near the village of Throckmorton.
Though still in commission, large parts of the base are…
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Series 9 Episode 8 Siege House in Shropshire (50 mins)
High Ercall Hall, in Shropshire, is the very picture of rural tranquillity today, but 355 years ago, at the height of the English Civil War, more than 200 Royalist troops were crammed inside the…
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Series 9 Episode 7 Iron-Age Market, Helford (50 mins)
Two large, impressive enclosures, or earthworks, can be seen at Gear and Caer Vallack, near Helford in Cornwall.
Sited on top of adjacent hills, they were thought by Victorian archaeologists to be…
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Series 9 Episode 6 An Ermine Street Pub, Cheshunt (49 mins)
1.15PM Saturday 27 Jun 2009 More4
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, two families of amateur archaeologists began excavating some Roman remains in what is now a public park in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. They were told to keep quiet about…
More -
Series 9 Episode 5 The Furnace in the Cellar, Ironbridge (49 mins)
12.10PM Saturday 27 Jun 2009 More4
This programme takes Time Team back to the earliest beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in the area now known as the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire.
In the village of Leighton the Team is…
More -
Series 9 Episode 4 The Naughty Monastery, Chicksands (50 mins)
11.10AM Saturday 27 Jun 2009 More4
The Chicksands military base in the heart of Bedfordshire is home to the joint armed services intelligence departments. Very hush hush, as they used to say in the 1940s.
Time Team was invited there…
More -
Series 9 Episode 3 Diving for the Armada, Kinlochbervie (50 mins)
10.05AM Saturday 27 Jun 2009 More4
Originally discovered by divers from RAF Lossemouth three years ago, an amazing shipwreck lies some 20 metres down on the seabed just off the coast of Kinlochbervie, in north-west Scotland.
Finds…
More -
Series 9 Episode 2 The Romans Panic, Lincolnshire (50 mins)
12.40PM Saturday 20 Jun 2009 More4
The small Lincolnshire town of Ancaster lies on Ermine Street, which is a major Roman road heading north from London.
The only Roman remains visible today are some massive earth banks and ditches…
More -
Series 9 Episode 1 London's First Bridge, Vauxhall (49 mins)
11.35AM Saturday 20 Jun 2009 More4
On the foreshore of the river Thames, just opposite the MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall, London, some old timbers - a series of posts or piles driven into the riverbed - have been discovered peeping out…
More
Series 7
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Series 7 Episode 4 Waddon (51 mins)
Time Team descend on the tiny village of Wadden in Dorset, where neighbours Grace Brooks and David James discovered a huge amount of old pottery in their shared garden during excavations for a new…
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Series 7 Episode 3 Wierre-Effroy (50 mins)
On 23 May 1940, Spitfire pilot Paul Klipsch flew across the Channel for his first and last day of combat. His plane crashed in northern France, where his body is buried in a local cemetery.
Time…
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Series 7 Episode 2 Cirencester: The Mosaic at the Bottom of the Garden (50 mins)
Around 1700 years ago, Corinium - modern day Cirencester - was the second most important city in Roman Britain after Londinium. It was a bustling, wealthy city - built along the important Roman…
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Series 7 Episode 1 Denia (51 mins)
For tens of thousands of Brits, Spain's Costa Brava means sun, sand, sea and sangria, but for the Time Team it's 1000 years of archaeology.
Tony Robinson and the experts turn their backs on…
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