For this programme Time Team visited one of the biggest building sites in Europe to unearth a perfectly preserved Roman boat.
The Team was invited by Dutch archaeologists to help rescue crucial evidence from a 35-metre-long barge that once transported goods along the Rhine. The river - the 'motorway of Roman Europe', as one of the Dutch experts described it - was the vital supply line between Roman Britain and the rest of the empire.
This would be the last chance to investigate the boat before the bulldozers moved in. The boat itself would be preserved, but buried beneath a cycle route.
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