Time Team

Season 5

A group of archaeologists have 3 days to discover historical artifacts in different sites around Britain.

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8 Episodes

Richmond Palace - Richmond, Surrey
E1
Richmond Palace - Richmond, SurreyTrumpeters House in Richmond, near London. Records show it was the site of a royal palace from the time of Edward III through to Elizabeth I, who died there. Destroyed during Cromwell's Commonwealth, the site has lain unexcavated.
Bronze-Age Trackway - Greylake, Somerset
E2
Bronze-Age Trackway - Greylake, SomersetThe team go to the Somerset levels in search of a 4,000-year-old wooden trackway. The quickest way to get across the marshes that used to exist here in the Bronze and Iron Ages was across wooden walkways. Now the team hope to find evidence of these footbridges.
Viking Graves - Orkney, Scotland
E3
Viking Graves - Orkney, ScotlandThe team go in search of evidence of the invasion of the Vikings, and its influence on ancient Britain. The team travel to the Orcadian island of Sanday to try to find out whether four mysterious mounds there are evidence of a Viking settlement or even a Viking burial site.
Roman Villa - Turkdean, Gloucestershire
E4
Roman Villa - Turkdean, Gloucestershire3 days of live excavation. The weekend ended with evidence of a Romano-British villa complex that is one of the largest ever found in Britain. This programme is an edited version of that weekend. They discover that the villa dates from the very first days of the Roman occupation. Amongst their new finds is an entire, untouched Roman water course.
Copper-Age Settlement - Mallorca, Spain
E5
Copper-Age Settlement - Mallorca, SpainTime Team goes abroad to tackle one of its most challenging sites. They search for evidence of one of the most enigmatic cultures in the world on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The Beaker people flourished in Europe around 4,000 BC, but there is very little evidence of their civilisation, which is thought to have made the first use of metal.
Aston Eyre Farmhouse - Aston Eyre, Shropshire
E6
Aston Eyre Farmhouse - Aston Eyre, ShropshireTime Team's efforts are concentrated as much above the ground as beneath as they travel to Aston Eyre, Shropshire where a farmhouse converted from a medieval gatehouse is just the starting point for three days of hard work.
Cathedral Hill - Downpatrick, County Down
E7
Cathedral Hill - Downpatrick, County DownOne of Ireland's most sacred sites where St Patrick, patron saint of All Ireland, set up his first church. On Cathedral Hill sits a magnificent church renovated from its medieval origins in the 18th century.
Deserted Medieval Village - High Worsall, North Yorkshire
E8
Deserted Medieval Village - High Worsall, North YorkshireFilmed between 10 and 12 October 1997, Time Team go to High Worsall, near Middlesbrough, a village that almost completely disappeared hundreds of years ago. Finds: 14th century buildings and manor house, pristine spindle whorl. Experimental demonstration: fishing and cooking caught fish. Also, historians Robin Bush and Dawn Hadley are followed while they research the village and create a timeline.