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Time Team : Season 7
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Air date: 02 Jan '00 - 13 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 (13)
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Time Team (1994)
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1. Denia, Spain - A Muslim Port In Spain
02 Jan '00A muslim port in Spain. The team visit the small Spanish port of Denia in order to investigate what life was like in the town 1,000 years ago, when it was an Islamic settlement.
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Time Team (1994)
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2. Cirencester, Gloucestershire - The Mosaic At The Bottom Of The Garden
09 Jan '00The Mosaic at the Bottom of the garden. The team of archaeological experts visits Cirencester, which in AD300 was one of the most important towns in Roman Britain.
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Time Team (1994)
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3. Wierre-Effroy, France - One Of The First Spitfires Lost In France
16 Jan '00One of the first spitfires lost in France. It was on 23 May 1940 that a young English pilot climbed into the cockpit of his Spitfire to join a formation of aircraft flying across the Channel to help defend troops retreating in the face of the Nazi advance. Paul Klipsch, aged 24, had never flown in a combat mission before; he was never to do so again. The young pilot was shot down over northern France. He had become one of the first of the 1,500 Royal Air Force pilots who were to give their live
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Time Team (1994)
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4. Waddon, Dorset - An Iron-Age Roundhouse And A Henge
23 Jan '00An iron-age roundhouse and a henge. The archeological experts have just three days to find out all they can about the tiny village of Wadden in Dorset.
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Time Team (1994)
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5. Birdoswald, Cumbria - Hadrian's Wall
30 Jan '00The team dig up more than they bargain for when they exhume a Roman cemetery in Cumbria. Their discovery prompts them to present a shocking theory.
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Time Team (1994)
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6. Elveden, Suffolk - In Search Of The Earliest Traces Of Mankind
06 Feb '00In search of the earliest traces of mankind. Mick Aston describes it as one of the oddest Time Team locations he's worked at. 'By day we'd be rooting about in this ancient clay and mud and looking for traces of our ancestors from 400,000 years ago, and then in the evening we'd all go back to this Center Park's holiday camp in the middle of the forest. Very strange.' Whether or not it was the oddest, it was certainly the oldest site that Time Team has ever excavated. It was also one of the rar
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Time Team (1994)
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7. Coventry, West Midlands - The Missing Cathedral And The Diabetic Prior
13 Feb '00The missing cathedral and the diabetic prior. The team break their three day dig rule for the first time after discovering a burial chamber containing the skeleton of a Prior in a medieval cathedral under Coventry's city centre.
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Time Team (1994)
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8. Basing House, Hampshire - The Royalists' Last Stand
20 Feb '00The Royalists' last stand. The team visit Basing House in Hampshire, once one of the grandest homes in Tudor England.
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Time Team (1994)
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9. Flag Fenn, Cambridgeshire - A Bronze-Age Barrow And Walkway
27 Feb '00A Bronze-Age barrow and walkway. Flag Fen, a few miles outside Peterborough, is one of the most important Bronze-Age sites in Europe. Discovered in 1982 by Francis Pryor, who is now director of the Flag Fen Laboratories and Bronze Age Centre, the area is unique in that large quantities of organic material from the period, including wood and leather, have survived, pickled in the waterlogged fenland peat. The centrepiece of this astonishing site is a one-kilometre-long alignment of posts passi
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Time Team (1994)
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10. Sutton, Hereford - In Search Of The Palace Of King Offa
05 Mar '00In search of the palace of King Offa. The Time Team head for Herefordshire in search of the Royal palace of the great Anglo-Saxon leader, King Offa. Records show that he had a palatial palace in the area but its exact location has never been discovered. Tony Robinson and the team have just 3 days to come up with some evidence.
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Time Team (1994)
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11. Greenwich Park, London - A Roman Temple In Sight Of The Millennium Dome
12 Mar '00A Roman temple in sight of the Millennium Dome. The team is in the heart of London as they dig for the remains of a Roman temple in Greenwich Park at the invitation of the Museum of London. As the 3 day dig progresses the discovery of a rare inscribed Roman stone and new evidence on the position of the famous Roman road, Watling Street, have the experts jumping up and down with excitement.
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Time Team (1994)
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12. Hartlepool - Nuns In Northumbria
19 Mar '00Nuns in Northumbria. Time Team goes in search of a lost Anglo-Saxon monastery on the rain and wind-swept Headland at Hartlepool in Northumberland. They have just 3 days to find the exact location of a monastery that 1,200 years ago had a thriving community of monks and nuns, presided over by Saint Hilda.
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Time Team (1994)
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13. York
26 Mar '00The dig's archaeological highs and lows are crammed into just 60 minutes in York where the finds range from a Roman skeleton complete with hobnailed boots, a Viking's discarded leather shoe, and the pillars of a monastic hospital. But what does all the evidence show? Who were these people and how did they live?
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