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Time Team : Season 1
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Air date: 16 Jan '94 - 4 episodesTime Team is a British television series which has been aired on British Channel 4 from 1994. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in layman's terms. This team of specialists changed throughout the series' run, although has consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding. The sites excavated over the show's run have ranged in date from the Palaeolithic right through to the Second World War. In October 2012 Channel 4 announced that the final series would be broadcast in 2013. Series 20 was screened in January–March 2013 and a number of specials are planned to be screened into 2014.
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List of Episodes (4)
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Time Team (1994)
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1. Athelney, Somerset - The Guerrilla Base of the King
16 Jan '94The Guerrilla Base of the King. The Time Team has just three days to answer questions raised by a local farmer about the archaeological history on his Somerset doorstep, asking whether this once-impenetrable, marsh-encircled site was Alfred's hiding place.
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Time Team (1994)
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2. Ribchester, Lancashire - On the Edge of an Empire
23 Jan '94On the edge of an empire. The village of Ribchester is midway between Preston and Clitheroe, in a tranquil setting beside the River Ribble. In Roman times, however, it must have seemed like the last outpost of the empire to a legionary of the newly conquering army. Jim Ridge, a local resident, asked Time Team to investigate the Roman remains in his garden.
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Time Team (1994)
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3. Much Wenlock, Shropshire
30 Jan '94The new town of a Norman prince Old foundations found in a garden may be one of the first houses to be built in the town. Is this so? and how did Much Wenlock become a big market town as it is today? The 'Time Team' reveal evidence of a 13th-century aisled hall in a present-day garden in Much Wenlock. Through the identification of 13th-century pottery finds and tree-ring dating, they link the building with visits by Henry II.
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Time Team (1994)
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4. Llangorse, Powys - The Fortress in the Lake
06 Feb '94The Fortress in the Lake. In the Dark Ages, a powerful king decided to show how powerful he was and built a man made island in the middle of a lake and stuck a palace on top of it. Who was the king and who were the builders and what happened to them all? The time team visits the site of this Dark Age man-made island, known as a Crannog, in Llangorse Lake near Brecon in Wales.
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