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Series 20 Episode 1

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First Broadcast: 4.40PM Sun 11 November 2012 Channel 4

Golfers at a popular East Midlands golf club now know that a huge wooded bank beside their fairway is a rather special area of 'rough'. Time Team's experts discovered, that 90 years ago it was a machine gun firing range - and buried in the bank are tens of thousands of spent bullets.

Belton House near Grantham may be one of Britain's finest stately homes but during World War I, the grounds were home to thousands of men training for frontline duties. It was where the Machine Gun Corps was created and its troops were trained.

The Corps was set up as a response to German superiority in using these deadly weapons and became vital to the war effort. Most of the Machine Gun Corps' records were destroyed, first in a fire and then in the Blitz in World War II.

Today almost nothing is visible above ground. Tony Robinson and the Team have quite a task to locate the hundreds of barrack blocks, kitchen blocks, roads, social centres and shooting ranges.

To the Team's relief, the dig is rich in finds, revealing glimpses of the men's lives in wartime; whether from the site of the YMCA, where a cup of cocoa could be had for a few pence, or from the hastily erected huts where they lived for their six weeks of intensive training.

They uncover stories of young men who went so bravely to their deaths. Of the 170,000 who trained here more than 12,000 were killed and another 50,000 injured. The Corps' nickname was 'the Suicide Club'.

The sound of a Vickers gun reverberating around the park for the first time in 90 years provides a shocking but fitting tribute.

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7. Series 8 Episode 7 An Iron-Age Roundhouse on Salisbury Plain
  
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8. Series 8 Episode 8 The Bone Cave, Alveston, Gloucestershire
  
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9. Series 8 Episode 9 The Inter-City Villa, Basildon, Berkshire
  
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10. Series 8 Episode 10 Holy Island, Northumberland
  
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11. Series 8 Episode 11 The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth, Shropshire
  
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12. Series 8 Episode 12 Three Tales of Canterbury
  
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13. Series 8 Episode 13 The Leper Hospital, Winchester
  
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14. Series 8 Episode 14 The Mystery of Mine Howe, Orkney
  
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15. Series 8 Episode 15 The Island of the Eels, Ely
  
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1. Series 9 Episode 1 London's First Bridge, Vauxhall
  
  On the foreshore of the river Thames, just opposite the MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall, London, some old timbers - a…
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2. Series 9 Episode 2 The Romans Panic, Lincolnshire
  
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3. Series 9 Episode 3 Diving for the Armada, Kinlochbervie
  
  Originally discovered by divers from RAF Lossemouth three years ago, an amazing shipwreck lies some 20 metres down on…
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4. Series 9 Episode 4 The Naughty Monastery, Chicksands
  
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5. Series 9 Episode 5 The Furnace in the Cellar, Ironbridge
  
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6. Series 9 Episode 6 An Ermine Street Pub, Cheshunt
  
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7. Series 9 Episode 7 Iron-Age Market, Helford
  
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8. Series 9 Episode 8 Siege House in Shropshire
  
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9. Series 9 Episode 9 A Prehistoric Airfield, Throckmorton
  
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10. Series 9 Episode 10 A Lost Roman City, Castleford
  
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11. Series 9 Episode 11 Every Castle Needs a Lord, Warwickshire
  
  A single stone stands on a hill at Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire.
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12. Series 9 Episode 12 Steptoe et Filius, Isle of Wight
  
  When a water-pipe trench was recently being dug across a field at Yaverland, on the Isle of Wight, a local…
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13. Series 9 Episode 13 Seven Buckets and a Buckle, Breamore, Hampshire
  
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14. Series 9 Episode 14 The Big Dig in Canterbury
  
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15. Series 9 Episode 15 Londinium, Edge of Empire
  
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1. Series 10 Episode 1 Garden Secrets, Raunds, Northants
  
  The Team meet Morris and Pat Jones who, when digging a small pond in their Northamptonshire garden, unearthed a…
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2. Series 10 Episode 2 Mosaics, Mosaics, Mosaics, Dinnington
  
  Tony Robinson and the Team meet a Somerset farmer who unexpectedly unveiled a mosaic floor under his pigsties.
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3. Series 10 Episode 3
  
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4. Series 10 Episode 4 The Giant's Grave, Fetlar, Shetland
  
  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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5. Series 10 Episode 5
  
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6. Series 10 Episode 6 Digging Liberty, Merton, South London
  
  Tony Robinson and the team are hunting for Liberty's first factory in South London.
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7. Series 10 Episode 7 Death in a Crescent, Bath
  
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8. Series 10 Episode 8 Back to Our Roots, Athelney
  
  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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9. Series 10 Episode 9 Looking for the White House, Kew Gardens
  
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10. Series 10 Episode 10 Rescuing the Dead, Leven, Fife
  
  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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11. Series 10 Episode 11 Not a Blot on the Landscape, Castle Howard, Yorkshire
  
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12. Series 10 Episode 12 A View to a Kiln, Sedgefield
  
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13. Series 10 Episode 13 Jailhouse Rocks, Appleby, Cumbria
  
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1. Series 11 Episode 1 In Search of the Brigittine abbey, Syon House
  
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2. Series 11 Episode 2 A Roman Bath House and an Edwardian Folly, Whitestaunton
  
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3. Series 11 Episode 3 The Crannog in the Loch, Loch Migdale
  
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6. Series 11 Episode 6 An Iron-Age Trading Centre, Green Island
  
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8. Series 11 Episode 8 Human Footprints on a Mesolithic Foreshore, Goldcliff
  
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10. Series 11 Episode 10 Cranborne Chase, Dorset
  
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11. Series 11 Episode 11 King Cnut's manor, Nassington
  
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12. Series 11 Episode 12 Back-Garden Archaeology Revisiting a Roman Villa, Ipswich
  
  Back in the 1940s, Basil Brown, the man who discovered Sutton Hoo, uncovered enough Roman remains in an Ipswich suburb…
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13. Series 11 Episode 13 The Lost City of Roxburgh, Roxburgh
  
  Five hundred years ago, a major city occupied what is now a large and empty field in the Scottish Borders.
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1. Series 12 Episode 1 The Manor That's Back to Front, Chenies Manor
  
  Tony and the Team visit Chenies Manor as they hope to discover what the house would have looked like when Henry VIII…
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2. Series 12 Episode 2 The Monastery and the Mansion, Nether Poppleton, Yorkshire
  
  The team investigate mysterious mounds that surround a Yorkshire village. Could they be the remains of an Anglo-Saxon…
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3. Series 12 Episode 3 The Bombers in the Marsh, Preston, Lancashire
  
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4. Series 12 Episode 4 Fighting on the Frontier, Drumlanrig, Dumfries and Galloway
  
  Twenty years ago, the Duke of Buccleuch discovered that the remains of a Roman fort might lie a few hundred metres from…
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5. Series 12 Episode 5 A Neolithic Cathedral? Northborough, Peterborough
  
  A huge circular crop mark lies in the fens near Peterborough and archaeologists believe it is Neolithic. Is it a…
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6. Series 12 Episode 6 In Search of Henry V's Flagship, Grace Dieu
  
  Under the murky fast-flowing waters of the River Hamble near Southampton lies the skeleton of a great medieval warship…
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7. Series 12 Episode 7 Going Upmarket with the Romans, Standish, Gloucestershire
  
  Tony Robinson and the team go in search of a lost Roman villa in a field near Standish in Gloucestershire.
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8. Series 12 Episode 8 Picts and Hermits: Cave Dwellers of Fife
  
  Time Team provide some fascinating answers about the inhabitants of the legendary Wemyss Caves on Fife that are now…
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9. Series 12 Episode 9 Lost Centuries of St Osyth, St Osyth, Essex
  
  The Team have three days to redraw the map of the picturesque town of St Osyth in Essex and establish whether the…
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10. Series 12 Episode 10 The Puzzle of Pickett's Farm, South Perrott, Dorset
  
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11. Series 12 Episode 11 Norman Neighbours, Skipsea, Humberside
  
  Loyal Time Team fan Frances Davies may have led the team to an amazing discovery of a whole Norman village in her field…
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12. Series 12 Episode 12 Tower Blocks and Togas, South Shields, Tyneside
  
  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…
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13. Series 12 Episode 13 Animal Farm, Hanslope, Milton Keynes
  
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1. Series 14 Episode 1 Finds in the Fairway, Isle of Man
  
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2. Series 14 Episode 2 There's No Place Like Rome, Blacklands, Somerset
  
  Jayne Lawes and the Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society have been carrying out excavations at a site called…
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3. Series 14 Episode 3 School Diggers, Hooke Court, Dorset
  
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5. Series 14 Episode 5 Shorncliffe Redoubt, Sandgate, Kent
  
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6. Series 14 Episode 6 A Port and Stilton, Stilton, Cambridgeshire
  
  In late March 2006, a potter and keen fieldwalker, Richard Landy, reported his discovery of an almost complete ceramic…
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7. Series 14 Episode 7 A Tale of Two Villages, Wicken, Northamptonshire
  
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8. Series 14 Episode 8 No Stone Unturned, Warburton, Cheshire
  
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9. Series 14 Episode 9 The Domesday Mill, Dotton Mill, Devon
  
  Dotton is a small hamlet in east Devon, close to the river Otter. In the Domesday Book, compiled around 1086, there is…
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10. Series 14 Episode 10 The Cheyne Gang, Chesham Bois, Bucks
  
  Julia Plaistowe, the owner of Chesham Bois House, is a keen gardener. Over the years, she's turned up 17th-century and…
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11. Series 14 Episode 11 Road to the Relics, Godstone, Surrey
  
  Local metal detectorist David Hunt has been visiting the same field in Godstone in Surrey for the past 15 years, and in…
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12. Series 14 Episode 12 The Abbey Habit, Poulton, Cheshire
  
  Poulton in Cheshire was once home to a small community of Cistercian monks, who founded an abbey on the banks of the…
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13. Series 14 Episode 13 In the Shadow of the Tor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall
  
  Ten thousand years ago, Bodmin Moor was completely different to the barren, windswept landscape of today. It was wooded…
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1. Series 18 Episode 1 Reservoir Rituals
  
  The first stone henge to be discovered in Britain for a century would be cause enough for major celebration. But…
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2. Series 18 Episode 2 Saxon Death, Saxon Gold
  
  Tony Robinson takes his merry band of archaeologists to Leicestershire to investigate life and death in Anglo Saxon…
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3. Series 18 Episode 3 Romans on the Range
  
  Tony and the Team get a unique opportunity to dig at an army firing range at High Ham in Somerset and investigate a…
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4. Series 18 Episode 4 Hitler's Island Fortress
  
  Tony Robinson doesn't usually get to decide where the Team should dig, but in this episode he chooses his first ever…
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5. Series 18 Episode 5 The Furnace in the Forest
  
  Dense and tranquil woodland in the County Durham countryside seems an unlikely venue for Time Team's investigation into…
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6. Series 18 Episode 6 Under the Gravestones
  
  The Team face one of their strangest challenges ever: digging through a church graveyard in search of what could be one…
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7. Series 18 Episode 7 The House of the White Queen
  
  Groby Old Hall in Leicestershire was once home to the legendary White Queen: Elizabeth, the wife of Edward IV. The Team…
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8. Series 18 Episode 8 Castles and Cannons
  
  The Team visit Jersey to investigate the origins of Mont Orgueil Castle: a fortress that came to symbolise the Channel…
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9. Series 18 Episode 9 The Mystery of the Manor Moat
  
  The Team descend on the historic Llancaich manor house to investigate an archaeologist's dream. An ancient moat has…
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10. Series 18 Episode 10 Search for the Domesday Mill
  
  When Stephen and Stephanie Fry bought a few acres of prime Somerset pasture to graze their horses, they inadvertently…
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1. Series 19 Episode 1 Dig by Wire
  
  Tony Robinson and the Team visit a tiny windswept island off the coast of Wales. The only way to get to it is by…
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2. Series 19 Episode 2 A Village Affair
  
  There's a problem in the chocolate-box village of Bitterley in Shropshire. The village's school and cottages cluster…
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3. Series 19 Episode 3 The Drowned Town
  
  Tony Robinson and the Team head to Dunwich, a village that's literally falling off the edge of the UK. Coastal erosion…
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4. Series 19 Episode 4 The First King of Racing
  
  Tony and the Team visit Newmarket, the birthplace of horseracing, in search of the earliest archaeological traces of…
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5. Series 19 Episode 5 Chapel of Secrets
  
  Tony leads the Team to the village of Beadnell on a beautiful stretch of the Northumbrian coast, to explore an unusual…
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6. Series 19 Episode 6 A Copper Bottomed Dig
  
  Two hundred years ago, Swansea was one of the wealthiest cities in the country, if not the world. The source of those…
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7. Series 19 Episode 7 The Only Earl Is Essex
  
  Property magnate Paul Whight has two very expensive hobbies. He collects and drives classic racing cars, which he keeps…
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8. Series 19 Episode 8 Secrets of the Dunes
  
  Eight hundred years ago the people of Kenfig on the south coast of Wales thought they had built the perfect town…
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9. Series 19 Episode 9 Rome's Wild West
  
  The Roman legionary fort of Caerleon in South Wales is one of the most famous and best preserved Roman sites in Britain.
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10. Series 19 Episode 10 How to Lose a Castle
  
  For generations a family of Somerset farmers have been wondering if there was ever actually a castle on top of the hill…
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11. Series 19 Episode 11 King John's Lost Palace
  
  Tony and the Team don their hunting green, pick up their bows and arrows and head for the fringes of Sherwood Forest…
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12. Series 19 Episode 12 The Time Team Guide to Burial
  
  Tony Robinson investigates how burial customs have changed and evolved over thousands of years of British history.
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13. Series 19 Episode 13 Time Team's Greatest Discoveries
  
  With over 250 amazing sites and tens of thousands of finds to draw on, it's hardly surprising the Team find it hard to…
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1. Series 20 Episode 1 The Forgotten Gunners of WWI
  
  Golfers at a popular East Midlands golf club now know that a huge wooded bank beside their fairway is a rather special…
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2. Series 20 Episode 2 Brancaster
  
  Tony and the Team uncover their largest ever range and number of items from Roman Britain, and undertake their most…
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3. Series 20 Episode 3 A Capital Hill
  
  Time Team investigate a huge hill near Cardiff that may be immensely significant; is it the long-lost Iron Age capital…
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4. Series 20 Episode 4 Henham's Lost Mansions
  
  Tony and the Team help charismatic Hektor Rous, the son of 'Aussie Earl' Keith Rous, piece together the mysterious…
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5. Series 20 Episode 5 Warriors
  
  In a sensational three days, an ancient site yields burials dating back to 2000BC, along with rare Saxon brooches…
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6. Series 20 Episode 6 Lost Mines of Lakeland
  
  Tony and the Team head to the Lake District on an expedition that takes them both higher and deeper than they've ever…
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7. Series 20 Episode 7 Horseshoe Hall
  
  Oakham Castle is the best preserved 12th-century building in Britain, but there's much more to it than meets the eye.
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8. Series 20 Episode 8 Mystery of the Thames-side Villa
  
  In the 1960s, a young PhD student decided to excavate a South Oxfordshire field where a farmer was regularly ploughing…
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9. Series 20 Episode 9 The Lost Castle of Dundrum
  
  Tony and the Team search for the remains of a renegade knight's Norman castle in one of Northern Ireland's most…
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10. Series 20 Episode 10 Wolsey's Lost Palace
  
  For 100 years schoolboys have been playing a few feet above the remains of the most opulent palace in Britain.
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11. Series 20 Episode 11 An Englishman's Castle
  
  What happens when you try to create your own grand design but find a mystery at the heart of your home, and its origins…
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12. Series 20 Episode 12 The Time Team Guide to Experimental Archaeology
  
  Tony Robinson celebrates the more than 150 practical experiments and re-creations that he and the Team have conducted…
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13. Series 20 Episode 13 Twenty Years of Time Team
  
  In this special celebration of the nation's favourite archaeology programme, Tony Robinson relives the best bits from…
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