Time Team

Series 16 Episode 13 Skeletons in the Shed: Blythburgh, Suffolk (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.30PM Sunday 29 Mar 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 16 Episode 12 Buried Bishops and Belfries: Salisbury Cathedral (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: Sunday 08 Feb 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 16 Episode 11 Heroes' Hill: Knockdhu, Co Antrim (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 5.35PM Sunday 18 Jan 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 16 Episode 10 Called to the Bar: Lincoln's Inn, London (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 5.30PM Sunday 08 Mar 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 16 Episode 9 Mystery of the Ice Cream Villa: Colworth, Bedfordshire (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: Sunday 22 Feb 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 16 Episode 8 Blood, Sweat and Beers: Risehill, North Yorkshire (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: Sunday 01 Feb 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 16 Episode 7 Toga Town: Caerwent, South Wales (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 5.30PM Sunday 25 Jan 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 16 Episode 6 The Trouble with Temples: Friar's Wash, Hertfordshire (48 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 5.40PM Sunday 04 Jan 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 16 Episode 5 Hermit Harbour: Looe, Cornwall (49 mins)

First Broadcast: Sunday 01 Mar 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 16 Episode 4 Anarchy in the UK: Radcot, Oxfordshire (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: Sunday 15 Feb 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 16 Episode 3 The Wedding Present: Scargill, County Durham (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 5.30PM Sunday 11 Jan 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 16 Episode 2 The Hollow Way: Ulnaby, County Durham (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 5.30PM Sunday 22 Mar 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 16 Episode 1 Beacon of the Fens: Warboys, The Fens (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: Sunday 15 Mar 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 15 Episode 13 The Fort of the Earls, Dungannon, Northern Ireland (48 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 12.35PM Saturday 29 Nov 2008 More4

In 1602 the English forces attacked and took one of the most important strongholds in Ireland - Dungannon.

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Series 15 Episode 12 From Constantinople to Cornwall, Padstow, North Cornwall (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 11.30AM Saturday 29 Nov 2008 More4

One summer during the 1980s, strange crop marks appeared in two fields on the north Cornish coast near Lellizzick.

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Series 15 Episode 11 Mysteries of the Mosaic, Coberley, Gloucestershire (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 10.30AM Saturday 29 Nov 2008 More4

When a Roman mosaic was uncovered on farmland near Coberley in 2003 the site became protected under the countryside stewardship scheme and investigated through a small excavation and a…

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Series 15 Episode 10 Keeping Up with the Georgians, Hunstrete, Somerset (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9.30AM Saturday 29 Nov 2008 More4

The Team are in a field just outside Bath to investigate the remains of what could have been one of the country's finest Georgian houses.

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Series 15 Episode 9 Saxons on the Edge, Stonton Wyville, Leicestershire (48 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 12.35PM Saturday 22 Nov 2008 More4

The Team goes in search of a possible Anglo-Saxon settlement at Knave Hill in Leicestershire.

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Series 15 Episode 8 Blitzkrieg on Shooters Hill, London (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 11.30AM Saturday 22 Nov 2008 More4

Tony Robinson and the team unearth the hidden archaeology of the biggest British battle that never was: the defence against a Nazi invasion in 1940.

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Series 15 Episode 7 The Naughty Nuns of Northampton, Towcester, Northamptonshire (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 10.30AM Saturday 22 Nov 2008 More4

When eight-year-old Amy Coleclough buried her cat 'Paintpot' in her garden, she uncovered a massive stone wall. Time Team is called in to investigate.

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Series 15 Episode 6 Gold in the Moat, Codnor Castle, Derbyshire (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9.30AM Saturday 22 Nov 2008 More4

In Derbyshire, the medieval castle of Codnor once domianted the landscape. But after hundreds of years of coal mining on the site, good quality archaeology might be hard to come by -…

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Series 15 Episode 5 Bodies in the Dunes, Outer Hebrides (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 1.05PM Saturday 15 Nov 2008 More4

In 2005, a major storm eroded a dune next to the beach at Allasdale, Barra, exposing human remains.

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Series 15 Episode 4 The Romans Recycle, Wickenby, Lincolnshire (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 12.05PM Saturday 15 Nov 2008 More4

Time Team are called to a site that covers several fields and lies between two villages ¿ Wickenby to the west and Lissington to the east.

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Series 15 Episode 3 5000 Tons of Stone, Hamsterley, County Durham (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 1.35PM Saturday 25 Apr 2009 More4

The Castles, near Hamsterley, County Durham, is an archaeological conundrum.

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Series 15 Episode 2 Street of the Dead, Binchester, County Durham (48 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 11AM Saturday 28 Mar 2009 More4

The Binchester Roman fort, near Bishop Auckland, was one of the largest and longest permanently occupied Roman forts in the north of England. Binchester, or Vinovia as it was called, was a…

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Series 15 Episode 1 Hunting King Harold, Portskewett, South Wales (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 10AM Saturday 28 Mar 2009 More4

Harold's Field in Portskewett, Monmouthshire, has long been rumoured (and referenced in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles) as a site where Harold Godwinson, later to become King Harold, built a…

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Series 14 Episode 13 In the Shadow of the Tor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall (48 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9AM Saturday 28 Mar 2009 More4

Ten thousand years ago, Bodmin Moor was completely different to the barren, windswept landscape of today. It was wooded and temperate, and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers roamed at their will…

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Series 14 Episode 12 The Abbey Habit, Poulton, Cheshire (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 12.35PM Saturday 16 May 2009 More4

Poulton in Cheshire was once home to a small community of Cistercian monks, who founded an abbey on the banks of the river Dee on the Welsh border. After only 60 years, however, the monks…

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Series 14 Episode 11 Road to the Relics, Godstone, Surrey (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 11AM Saturday 21 Mar 2009 More4

Local metal detectorist David Hunt has been visiting the same field in Godstone in Surrey for the past 15 years, and in that time has discovered a huge collection of Roman finds. Around…

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Series 14 Episode 10 The Cheyne Gang, Chesham Bois, Bucks (48 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9.30AM Saturday 27 Dec 2008 More4

Julia Plaistowe, the owner of Chesham Bois House, is a keen gardener. Over the years, she's turned up 17th-century and medieval tiles beneath the greenhouse, uncovered medieval pottery in…

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Series 14 Episode 9 The Domesday Mill, Dotton Mill, Devon (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 12.30PM Saturday 20 Dec 2008 More4

Dotton is a small hamlet in east Devon, close to the river Otter. In the Domesday Book, compiled around 1086, there is a record of there having been a mill there, to the value of five…

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Series 14 Episode 8 No Stone Unturned, Warburton, Cheshire (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 11.30AM Saturday 20 Dec 2008 More4

Moss Brow Farm in Warburton, Cheshire, had been the focus of intense study by local enthusiast James Balme for almost a decade before he invited Time Team to investigate further. In that…

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Series 14 Episode 7 A Tale of Two Villages, Wicken, Northamptonshire (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 10.30AM Saturday 20 Dec 2008 More4

Wicken, in Northamptonshire, appears to the modern visitor to be a typical English village, complete with church and manor house. But back in the medieval era there were two churches and…

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Series 14 Episode 6 A Port and Stilton, Stilton, Cambridgeshire (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9.30AM Saturday 20 Dec 2008 More4

In late March 2006, a potter and keen fieldwalker, Richard Landy, reported his discovery of an almost complete ceramic Roman cheese press, used for making goat's cheese, to his local finds…

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Series 14 Episode 5 Shorncliffe Redoubt, Sandgate, Kent (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9AM Saturday 14 Mar 2009 More4

In 1793, the revolutionary government in Paris issued the infamous orders to execute King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Two weeks later, on 1 February, the French republic declared war…

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Series 14 Episode 4 The Druids' Last Stand, Anglesey (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 4.20AM Friday 03 Jul 2009 Channel 4

In early 2006 an aerial photographic survey of Anglesey produced a remarkable image. On the slopes south of the town of Amlwch approximately four miles from the island's north coast - a…

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Series 14 Episode 3 School Diggers, Hooke Court, Dorset (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 11.30AM Saturday 07 Mar 2009 More4

Hooke Court, in Dorset, is home today to a residential study centre and a small private school and nursery. Most of its surviving structures are believed to date from the English civil war…

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Series 14 Episode 2 There's No Place Like Rome, Blacklands, Somerset (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 10.30AM Saturday 07 Mar 2009 More4

Jayne Lawes and the Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society have been carrying out excavations at a site called 'Blacklands' in Somerset since 1999.

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Series 14 Episode 1 Finds in the Fairway, Isle of Man (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9.30AM Saturday 07 Mar 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…

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Series 12 Episode 13 Animal Farm, Hanslope, Milton Keynes (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 11.30AM Saturday 07 Feb 2009 More4

Unusual carved stonework, and a huge quantity of 11th to 13th-century pottery and some high-status finds brought Time Team on a hunt for a Norman house or hunting lodge in this former…

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Series 12 Episode 12 Tower Blocks and Togas, South Shields, Tyneside (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 10.30AM Saturday 07 Feb 2009 More4

South Shields is well known for its Roman fort at the end of Hadrian's Wall but today the team are there in an attempt to uncover the large Roman military cemetery that must be nearby.

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Series 12 Episode 11 Norman Neighbours, Skipsea, Humberside (50 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 1.35PM Saturday 31 Jan 2009 More4

Loyal Time Team fan Frances Davies may have led the team to an amazing discovery of a whole Norman village in her field in East Yorkshire, a village lost to the records.

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Series 12 Episode 10 The Puzzle of Pickett's Farm, South Perrott, Dorset (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 12.35PM Saturday 31 Jan 2009 More4

Time Team heads to Dorset, inspired by the intriguing discovery of Roman brooches and coins in a hilltop field, but what they find isn't the Roman Temple they had imagined.

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Series 12 Episode 9 Lost Centuries of St Osyth, St Osyth, Essex (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 11.30AM Saturday 31 Jan 2009 More4

The Team have three days to redraw the map of the picturesque town of St Osyth in Essex and establish whether the timbers found in the creek are the remains of a medieval wharf.

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Series 12 Episode 8 Picts and Hermits: Cave Dwellers of Fife (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 10.30AM Saturday 31 Jan 2009 More4

Time Team provide some fascinating answers about the inhabitants of the legendary Wemyss Caves on Fife that are now under serious threat from erosion.

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Series 12 Episode 7 Going Upmarket with the Romans, Standish, Gloucestershire (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 1.35PM Saturday 24 Jan 2009 More4

Tony Robinson and the team go in search of a lost Roman villa in a field near Standish in Gloucestershire.

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Series 12 Episode 6 In Search of Henry V's Flagship, Grace Dieu (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 12.35PM Saturday 24 Jan 2009 More4

Under the murky fast-flowing waters of the River Hamble near Southampton lies the skeleton of a great medieval warship. Is it the Grace Dieu, Henry V's naval flagship?

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Series 12 Episode 5 A Neolithic Cathedral? Northborough, Peterborough (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 11.30AM Saturday 24 Jan 2009 More4

A huge circular crop mark lies in the fens near Peterborough and archaeologists believe it is Neolithic. Is it a farming settlement or a crucial religious site? Time Team investigate.

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Series 12 Episode 4 Fighting on the Frontier, Drumlanrig, Dumfries and Galloway (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 10.30AM Saturday 24 Jan 2009 More4

Twenty years ago, the Duke of Buccleuch discovered that the remains of a Roman fort might lie a few hundred metres from his home, Drumlanrig Castle near Dumfries. Time Team start digging.

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Series 12 Episode 3 The Bombers in the Marsh, Preston, Lancashire (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 1.45PM Saturday 17 Jan 2009 More4

Time Team join a group of experts to try and solve the mystery of why two Douglas A26 Invader American bombers collided with each other just after take off in November 1944.

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Series 12 Episode 2 The Monastery and the Mansion, Nether Poppleton, Yorkshire (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 12.40PM Saturday 17 Jan 2009 More4

The team investigate mysterious mounds that surround a Yorkshire village. Could they be the remains of an Anglo-Saxon saint's nunnery?

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Series 11 Episode 13 The Lost City of Roxburgh, Roxburgh (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 3.50AM Sunday 05 Apr 2009 Channel 4

Five hundred years ago, a major city occupied what is now a large and empty field in the Scottish Borders.

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Series 11 Episode 12 Back-Garden Archaeology Revisiting a Roman Villa, Ipswich (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 3.55AM Saturday 04 Apr 2009 Channel 4

Back in the 1940s, Basil Brown, the man who discovered Sutton Hoo, uncovered enough Roman remains in an Ipswich suburb to believe he had found the largest villa in East Anglia.

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Series 11 Episode 11 King Cnut's manor, Nassington (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 10AM Saturday 28 Feb 2009 More4

Ogling a Grade One listed 15th-century manor would be enough for most people - but not for the Time Team. They have to rip up the floorboards and look underneath, because somewhere around…

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Series 11 Episode 10 Cranborne Chase, Dorset (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 9AM Saturday 28 Feb 2009 More4

Dorset farmer Simon Meadon's land is packed with archaeology. There's a large Roman building, which might be a villa, but may be too big. On the other side of the hill there's a Bronze Age…

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Series 11 Episode 9 From Iron-Age Rubbish Pits to a Roman Villa, Wittenham (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.55AM Tuesday 31 Mar 2009 Channel 4

The Iron Age hill fort in Wittenham is an impressive monument. From behind its perimeter ramparts the hilltop offers commanding views of the Thames and the surrounding Oxfordshire…

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Series 11 Episode 8 Human Footprints on a Mesolithic Foreshore, Goldcliff (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 11.30AM Saturday 21 Feb 2009 More4

As the beach of the Severn River gradually erodes, it reveals astonishing evidence of some of this country's earliest inhabitants. But can that evidence - flints, food remains and, most…

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Series 11 Episode 7 A Medieval Blast Furnace, Oakamoor (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 10.30AM Saturday 21 Feb 2009 More4

England relied on the skills of her iron workers centuries before the Industrial Revolution. Tony Robinson and the Team travel to what is now a quiet rural valley in Staffordshire in…

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Series 11 Episode 6 An Iron-Age Trading Centre, Green Island (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 9.30AM Saturday 21 Feb 2009 More4

Today Poole Harbour's beaches and islands make it a tranquil haven for weekend sailors, walkers and swimmers. But in the Iron Age it was a thriving port - perhaps the most important in the…

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Series 11 Episode 5 The Roman Fort that Wasn't There, Syndale (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.15AM Saturday 28 Mar 2009 Channel 4

When the invading Roman army swept towards London, history suggests that they must have established a fort stronghold somewhere along the way to oversee supply lines and regroup. But it…

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Series 11 Episode 4 Saxon Burials on the Ridge, South Carlton (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 11.30AM Saturday 14 Feb 2009 More4

In a field near Lincoln, an array of Anglo-Saxon brooches, pins and clasps uncovered by metal detectorists point to an undiscovered cemetery.

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Series 11 Episode 3 The Crannog in the Loch, Loch Migdale (48 mins)

First Broadcast: 10.30AM Saturday 14 Feb 2009 More4

At the western end of Loch Migdale, in the Scottish Highlands, sits a mysterious island. It could be a crannog; a man-made prehistoric island probably inhabited at some point in prehistory.

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Series 11 Episode 2 A Roman Bath House and an Edwardian Folly, Whitestaunton (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 9.30AM Saturday 14 Feb 2009 More4

Tony Robinson and the Team descend on the grounds of a superb medieval manor house in Somerset to investigate a supposed Roman Villa lying in a boggy area at the bottom of the garden.

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Series 11 Episode 1 In Search of the Brigittine abbey, Syon House (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.05AM Saturday 21 Mar 2009 Channel 4

Syon House in Chiswick, West London, is one of the country's finest and best-preserved stately homes. Yet few people know that somewhere in the grounds once stood one of England's richest…

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Series 10 Episode 13 Jailhouse Rocks, Appleby, Cumbria (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 12.05PM Saturday 09 May 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.

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Series 10 Episode 12 A View to a Kiln, Sedgefield (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.40AM Friday 13 Mar 2009 Channel 4

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.

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Series 10 Episode 11 Not a Blot on the Landscape, Castle Howard, Yorkshire (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.25AM Thursday 12 Mar 2009 Channel 4

Tony Robinson and the team are invited to dig up the lawns of one of Britain's grandest stately homes, Castle Howard in Yorkshire.

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Series 10 Episode 10 Rescuing the Dead, Leven, Fife (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 1.05PM Saturday 02 May 2009 More4

A rare Bronze Age cemetery is the prompt for Tony and the Team to take on a rescue mission in Fife, Scotland.

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Series 10 Episode 9 Looking for the White House, Kew Gardens (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.05AM Monday 09 Mar 2009 Channel 4

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?

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Series 10 Episode 8 Back to Our Roots, Athelney (50 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 11AM Saturday 02 May 2009 More4

To mark the 100th episode, Tony Robinson and the Time Team return to a site they investigated in the very first series.

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Series 10 Episode 7 Death in a Crescent, Bath (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 10AM Saturday 02 May 2009 More4

The Royal Crescent in Bath may be one of Britain's finest structures - but that doesn't deter Tony Robinson, Mick Aston and the rest of the team from digging it up.

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Series 10 Episode 6 Digging Liberty, Merton, South London (48 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.20AM Sunday 08 Mar 2009 Channel 4

Tony Robinson and the team are hunting for Liberty's first factory in South London.

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Series 10 Episode 5 Time Team (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.20AM Saturday 07 Mar 2009 Channel 4

The team visits Greenwich in search of Henry VIII's lost armoury and jousting yard, which was located beside his favourite palace - now the site for the Naval College and Maritime Museum.

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Series 10 Episode 4 The Giant's Grave, Fetlar, Shetland (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 10.30AM Saturday 25 Apr 2009 More4

Time Team treks to one of the outermost Shetland Islands in an attempt to reveal the truth behind an ancient local myth.

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Series 10 Episode 3 Time Team (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 9.30AM Saturday 25 Apr 2009 More4

Time Team travels to the Peak District to uncover the story behind a grisly discovery; a mysterious collection of human bones in a deep cave in Derbyshire.

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Series 10 Episode 2 Mosaics, Mosaics, Mosaics, Dinnington (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 1.30PM Saturday 18 Apr 2009 More4

Tony Robinson and the Team meet a Somerset farmer who unexpectedly unveiled a mosaic floor under his pigsties.

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Series 10 Episode 1 Garden Secrets, Raunds, Northants (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 12.30PM Saturday 18 Apr 2009 More4

The Team meet Morris and Pat Jones who, when digging a small pond in their Northamptonshire garden, unearthed a skeleton - laid out with a knife, ceremonial pottery and a valuable buckle.

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Series 9 Episode 15 Londinium, Edge of Empire (77 mins)

First Broadcast: 12.40PM Saturday 11 Jul 2009 More4

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…

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Series 9 Episode 14 The Big Dig in Canterbury (77 mins)

First Broadcast: 10AM Saturday 17 Jan 2009 More4

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…

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Series 9 Episode 13 Seven Buckets and a Buckle, Breamore, Hampshire (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 9AM Saturday 17 Jan 2009 More4

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…

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Series 9 Episode 12 Steptoe et Filius, Isle of Wight (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 1.05PM Saturday 10 Jan 2009 More4

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.

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Series 9 Episode 11 Every Castle Needs a Lord, Warwickshire (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 12.05PM Saturday 10 Jan 2009 More4

A single stone stands on a hill at Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire.

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Series 9 Episode 10 A Lost Roman City, Castleford (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 11.05AM Saturday 10 Jan 2009 More4

This programme sees Time Team travelling north and back in time to the Roman period.

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Series 9 Episode 9 A Prehistoric Airfield, Throckmorton (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 10AM Saturday 10 Jan 2009 More4

A disused RAF bomber base, with one of the longest runways in the country, currently covers a large area near the village of Throckmorton.

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Series 9 Episode 8 Siege House in Shropshire (50 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 4.10AM Monday 02 Mar 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 9 Episode 7 Iron-Age Market, Helford (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 11AM Saturday 03 Jan 2009 More4

Two large, impressive enclosures, or earthworks, can be seen at Gear and Caer Vallack, near Helford in Cornwall.

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Series 9 Episode 6 An Ermine Street Pub, Cheshunt (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 10AM Saturday 03 Jan 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…

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Series 9 Episode 5 The Furnace in the Cellar, Ironbridge (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 9AM Saturday 03 Jan 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.

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Series 9 Episode 4 The Naughty Monastery, Chicksands (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 1.40PM Saturday 27 Dec 2008 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.

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Series 9 Episode 3 Diving for the Armada, Kinlochbervie (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 12.35PM Saturday 27 Dec 2008 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.

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Series 9 Episode 2 The Romans Panic, Lincolnshire (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 11.35AM Saturday 27 Dec 2008 More4

The small Lincolnshire town of Ancaster lies on Ermine Street, which is a major Roman road heading north from London.

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Series 9 Episode 1 London's First Bridge, Vauxhall (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 10.30AM Saturday 27 Dec 2008 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…

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Series 8 Episode 15 The Island of the Eels, Ely (77 mins)

For six months in the latter half of 2000, Time Team followed an excavation in Ely, Cambridgeshire, for a special 90-minute documentary.

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Series 8 Episode 14 The Mystery of Mine Howe, Orkney (51 mins)

In September 1999, local farmer Douglas Paterson, of Tankerness in Orkney, rediscovered a remarkable underground structure which had remained half forgotten and almost consigned to the…

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Series 8 Episode 13 The Leper Hospital, Winchester (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.30AM Friday 20 Feb 2009 Channel 4

About a mile outside Winchester, just outside the city boundaries, is a field which, 900 years ago, was home to the city's outcasts.

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Series 8 Episode 12 Three Tales of Canterbury (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.10AM Thursday 19 Feb 2009 Channel 4

Over the August bank holiday weekend last year, Time Team took a crew of around 100 people to Canterbury for a three-day live dig. Or, rather, for three three-day digs because the live…

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Series 8 Episode 11 The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth, Shropshire (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.45AM Wednesday 18 Feb 2009 Channel 4

A 70-feet-tall Norman tower and some other stonework is all that's left of a great castle built exactly 900 years ago and around which grew up the town of Bridgnorth in Shropshire.

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Series 8 Episode 10 Holy Island, Northumberland (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 5.20AM Tuesday 17 Feb 2009 Channel 4

After it ceased to be a centre for Christian monks in the 1530s, Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, off the far north-east English coast, became a military base.

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Series 8 Episode 9 The Inter-City Villa, Basildon, Berkshire (51 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 4.20AM Monday 16 Feb 2009 Channel 4

In 1838, navvies laying Brunel's Great Western Railway found two Roman floor mosaics, probably from a villa, at Lower Basildon, in Berkshire.

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Series 8 Episode 8 The Bone Cave, Alveston, Gloucestershire (50 mins)

A tiny entrance to a cave in the village of Alveston, Gloucestershire, leads to a grisly archaeological discovery.

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Series 8 Episode 7 An Iron-Age Roundhouse on Salisbury Plain (49 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.20AM Sunday 15 Feb 2009 Channel 4

Salisbury Plain, as well as being the British Army's biggest training ground, is one of Europe's most extensive areas of undisturbed archaeology. Over 38,000 hectares - an area the size of…

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Series 8 Episode 6 A Palace Sold for Scrap, Rycote, Oxfordshire (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.10AM Saturday 14 Feb 2009 Channel 4

Time Team came to Rycote Park, in Oxfordshire, to try to find the remains of a grand country house that once played host to five reigning monarchs.

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Series 8 Episode 5 The Lost Viaduct, Blaenafon, South Wales (51 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.10AM Friday 13 Feb 2009 Channel 4

Time Team came to Blaenafon, in south Wales, to look for the world's first railway viaduct.

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Series 8 Episode 4 A Waltham Villa, Gloucestershire (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.10AM Thursday 12 Feb 2009 Channel 4

Waltham field, in the village of Whittington, five miles from Cheltenham. Alerted by Gloucester County Archaeology, the Team have come in search of a Roman villa.

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Series 8 Episode 3 The Celtic Spring, Llygadwy, Wales (51 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.10AM Monday 09 Feb 2009 Channel 4

In a secluded valley in Wales, what may be a medieval or even Roman trackway leads down to a natural spring.

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Series 8 Episode 2 The Man Who Bought a Castle, Alderton, Northamptonshire (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.05AM Sunday 08 Feb 2009 Channel 4

A couple of years ago, local man Derek Batten was driving through the village of Alderton, near Northampton, when he was surprised to see a sign advertising a castle and moat for sale.

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Series 8 Episode 1 Anglo-Saxon Cemetery in Lincolnshire (49 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 4.15AM Friday 06 Feb 2009 Channel 4

On the surface it looks just like any other large Lincolnshire field. But when a pipe was laid across it a couple of years previously the trench dug then revealed a number of shallow…

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Series 7 Episode 13 York (51 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.15AM Thursday 05 Feb 2009 Channel 4

Tony Robinson and the Team faced one of their biggest challenges when they travelled to York to excavate three sites from three different historical periods in just three days.

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Series 7 Episode 12 Hartlepool (51 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.15AM Saturday 17 Jan 2009 Channel 4

The Team search for a lost Anglo-Saxon monastery on the rain and wind-swept Headland at Hartlepool in Northumberland.

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Series 7 Episode 11 Greenwich (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.20AM Monday 02 Feb 2009 Channel 4

Tony Robinson and the Team are in Greenwich Park at the invitation of the Museum of London.

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Series 7 Episode 10 Sutton, Hereford (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.10AM Sunday 01 Feb 2009 Channel 4

Time Team head for Herefordshire in search of the Royal palace of the great Anglo-Saxon leader, King Offa, who ruled the kingdom of Mercia from 757 to 796.

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Series 7 Episode 9 Flag Fen (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4AM Saturday 31 Jan 2009 Channel 4

The Team travel back to the Bronze Age to Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire.

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Series 7 Episode 8 Basing House (51 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.20AM Friday 30 Jan 2009 Channel 4

The Team rubs shoulders with royalty when they visit Basing House in Hampshire.

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Series 7 Episode 7 Coventry (51 mins)

First Broadcast: 4AM Thursday 29 Jan 2009 Channel 4

After three days excavating a medieval cathedral under Coventry city centre, Time Team discovers a burial chamber and decide to break their 'three-day-dig' rule and stay on.

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Series 7 Episode 6 Elveden (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4AM Monday 26 Jan 2009 Channel 4

Time Team are in search of the real-life Flintstones at one of Britain's major early Stone Age sites at a holiday camp at Elveden in Suffolk.

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Series 7 Episode 5 Birdoswald (51 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.10AM Sunday 25 Jan 2009 Channel 4

Tony Robinson and the Team travel to the Roman fort of Birdoswald in Cumbria to carry out the first ever excavation of a Roman cemetery near the wall.

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Series 7 Episode 4 Waddon (51 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.20AM Saturday 24 Jan 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 7 Episode 3 Wierre-Effroy (50 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 4.20AM Friday 23 Jan 2009 Channel 4

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.

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Series 7 Episode 2 Cirencester: The Mosaic at the Bottom of the Garden (50 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.20AM Monday 19 Jan 2009 Channel 4

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…

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Series 7 Episode 1 Denia (51 mins) [S]

First Broadcast: 4.20AM Sunday 18 Jan 2009 Channel 4

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.

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Series 4 Episode 6 Nethcravon (51 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.05AM Sunday 26 Apr 2009 Channel 4

For their final high-speed archaeological adventure of the series. Time Team find themselves inside a partially abandoned army barracks in Nethcravon in Wiltshire. It's not military…

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Series 4 Episode 5 Malton (51 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.10AM Saturday 25 Apr 2009 Channel 4

The intrepid archaeological treasure hunters, led by Tony Robinson, head for Malton in North Yorkshire where a swathe of nettle-infested jungle conceals 2,000 years of English history…

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Series 4 Episode 4 Govan (51 mins)

First Broadcast: 4.05AM Friday 24 Apr 2009 Channel 4

Tony Robinson and the Time Team face a fascinating conundrum that sends them spinning back into the dark ages of Scottish history. Their location is Govan, on the banks of the River Clyde…

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Series 4 Episode 3 Birmingham (51 mins)

Birmingham residents get an on-the-doorstep lesson in archaeology when Tony Robinson and Mick Aston call in the experts to try and locate one of the most important sites in the history of…

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Series 4 Episode 2 Launceston Church (52 mins)

Channel 4's archaeology-as-it-happens programme attempts to solve the secret history of a female skeleton found in Launceston, Cornwall.

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Series 4 Episode 1 St Mary's City, Maryland (51 mins)

The series begins with an unusual transatlantic departure when Time Team follow in the footsteps of some of the first English settlers in America. The journey takes them to the historic…

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