Time Team: Season 18

Reservoir Rituals

47min - Tony and the Time Team get a rare opportunity to investigate a site after a local dam in Dartmoor is drained for repairs. The team is challenged to unravel a history that dates back to the earliest settlement of the United Kingdom. They discover evidence the site had been used constantly for 4,000 years, but to their surprise, some of the structures they find seem completely out of place.

Saxon Death, Saxon Gold

47min - The Time Team investigates a well known site, presumed to be used for high-status Saxon burial rituals in West Langton Leicestershire. While there, they explore the funeral practices of the Saxons, and recreate a burial using one of the Time Team members. What can burial practices teach us about the Saxons beliefs about life and death?

Romans on the Range

47min - Tony and the Time Team get a unique opportunity to dig at an army firing range at High Ham in Somerset, and investigate a series of mosaics, first discovered 150 years ago. Everything indicates a Roman villa, though perhaps on a much smaller scale than what is typical. The inhabitants may have been Romanised Britons, living from the 2nd to the early 5th century.

Hitler's Island Fortress

47min - The Time Team travels to the Channel Islands, this time to explore the ruins of the German occupation of the islands during WWII. They find evidence of military defenses built around the islands, obviously, but they also find the remnants of structures used for day to day activities of the soldiers. It was a recreation of German civilian life, made up for the troops during their occupation here.

Furnace in the Forest

47min - Tony Robinson and the Time Team travel to Derwentcote near Newcastle in England. They have three days to investigate the ruins of an iron and steel works that produced world class metal from the early 1700's to the 1850's. Their interest is based on the number of different processes developed in the area during the time. They find that the site is much older than they first thought.

Under the Gravestones

47min - The Time Team heads to the town of Castor to dig in the grounds of a Church, looking for the remains of a substantial Roman complex. Complicating the excavation is the work of Edmund Artist, who took detailed measurements and dug the area 150 years ago. They need to first find the ruins, and then try to understand and confirm what Artist saw. It could be the largest Roman structure in Britain.

House of the White Queen

47min - The Time Team visits the ruins of the home of the Grey family, and explores the property the family had lived on for nearly 800 years. This included famous names such as William the Conqueror, Queen Elizabeth I, and Lady Jane Grey. The team tries to establish the history of the castle built on the site in the 12th century. What pivotal moments of history happened in this very place?

Cannons and Castles

47min - Mont Orgueil in Jersey is a well known fortification that was extended throughout the ages. Built by King John, this 18th century Tudor structure has a history going all the way back to the 12th century. The Time Team's job is to unravel where the later extensions absorbed the original medieval construction, and what the castle originally looked like in the time of the Normans.

Mystery of the Manor Moat

47min - The team visits Llancaiach Manor in southern Wales to investigate a series of strange structures found in the 1970's. What is most intriguing is the discovery of an ancient moat, as no one knows what it once protected. Was it an early Welsh chapel, a Roman fort, or an ancestral family home? What begins as a straight forward search turns up a far more complex and interesting story.

Search for the Domesday Mill

47min - Horse owner Stephanie Fry believes an 11th century flour mill once stood on her land, near Stoke Trister in Somerset, and asks the Time Team to dig. There is reference to a mill in the parish in Domesday, and standing remains of a building depicted in a 1782 parish map. Multiple leat earthworks in the area indicate multiple mills over the centuries.

Bamburgh, Northumberland

Geophysics Compilation

The Way We Lived Compilation