• Air date: 04 Jan '04 13 episodes
      Time 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.
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. Syon House, London - In Search Of The Brigittine Abbey

      04 Jan '04
      The team are at Syon House in Chiswick, West London, one of the country's best-preserved stately homes. Few people know that in its grounds once stood a 16th-century abbey.
    • 2. Whitestaunton, Somerset - A Roman Bath House And Edwardian Folly

      11 Jan '04
      Whitestaunton Manor is over 800 years old, but during the Victorian period the then owners, the Elton family, excavated the remains of what they thought was a Roman villa some distance from the main house. With a mass of finds relating to different building materials and pottery drawn from a wide area, the villa theory remained unchallenged over the years. That was until the young archaeologist Freya Bowles looked again at the site and came to the conclusion that the villa idea didn't stand up b
    • 3. Loch Migdale, Scottish Highlands - The Crannog In The Loch

      18 Jan '04
      The team are in Scotland on a prehistoric man-made island in Loch Migdale. What clues are there to the way of life in prehistoric Scotland two to three thousand years ago?
    • 4. South Carlton, Lincolnshire - Saxon Burials On The Ridge

      25 Jan '04
      The team dig up a field near Lincoln where metal detectorists have discovered an array of Saxon brooches, pins and clasps and appears to be a cemetery.
    • 5. Syndale, Kent - The Roman Fort That Wasn't There

      01 Feb '04
      Excavations conducted by the Kent Archaeological Field School at Syndale, in Kent, have produced some interesting Roman finds. The most exciting was the discovery of what is thought to be an 'ankle-breaker ditch', a special military design that incorporates a trap at the bottom to perform the task it was named after. A day or two's march from where the Romans landed in 43 AD, and on the north-Kent route they would have taken on their way to the Thames, could this be the site of the first Roman
    • 6. Green Island, Dorset - An Iron-Age Trading Centre

      08 Feb '04
      The team have three days to investigate if Green Island in Poole Harbour was the centre of an industrial heartland.
    • 7. Oakamoor, Staffordshire - A Medieval Blast Furnace

      15 Feb '04
      Archaeology series presented by Tony Robinson. The team travel to what is now a quiet rural valley in Staffordshire, but which for centuries was the epicentre of Britain's iron industry, home to a mass of furnaces, blacksmiths and other highly-skilled iron workers.
    • 8. Goldcliffe, Severn Estuary - Human Footprints On A Mesolithic Foreshore

      22 Feb '04
      Popular archaeology programme. Tony Robinson and the team uncover evidence relating to Britain's earliest inhabitants as they work on the beach of the River Severn. Flints, food remains and fossilised footsteps offer an insight into the lives of hunter-gatherers who existed 8,000 years ago. But the mud, the tide and the weather ensure that the team must work swiftly to preserve the archaeological finds.
    • 9. Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire - Fertile Soils, Rich Archaeology

      29 Feb '04
      The Time Team piece together one of the most extensive Iron Age landscapes ever discovered in Britain as they explore the surroundings of the impressive Iron Age fort in Wittenham.
    • 10. Nassington, Northamptonshire - King Cnut's Manor

      07 Mar '04
      The team rip up the floorboards of a Northhamptonshire manor in search of a Saxon hall that once belonged to King Canute. They have three days to find out whether this site once played host tot the great Anglo-Danish king.
    • 11. Ipswich, Suffolk - Back-Garden Archaeology

      14 Mar '04
      The team search for the remains of the largest Roman villa in East Anglia, digging up a suburb of Ipswich where Basil Brown first uncovered Roman remains back in the 1940's.
    • 12. Roxburgh, Scottish Borders - The Lost City Of Roxburgh

      21 Mar '04
      Tony and the team search for the remains of Roxburgh, one of medieval Scotland's four great centres, but which has vanished beneath the pasture surrounding the ruins of Roxburgh Castle.
    • 13. Cranborne Chase, Dorset - Brimming With Remains

      28 Mar '04
      The archaeological experts investigate various burial sites on a farm in Dorset which is situated in an area teeming with evidence of Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman activity. But untangling all the elements to determine exactly what relationship exists between the dead and their surroundings is a monumental task.