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Time Team : Season 8
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Air date: 07 Jan '01 - 12 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 (12)
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Time Team (1994)
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1. Normanton, Lincolnshire - An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
07 Jan '01On the surface it looks just like any other large Lincolnshire field. But when a pipe was laid across it a couple of years previously the trench dug then revealed a number of shallow graves. An exploratory dig in 1998 identified them as Anglo-Saxon – on a site which also threw up large quantities of Roman remains. An earlier water pipe, laid in 1954, had uncovered a lot of Roman pottery here too. So what did it all indicate? And what could Time Team learn about this possible Anglo-Saxon cemetery
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Time Team (1994)
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2. Alderton, Northamptonshire - The Man Who Bought A Castle
14 Jan '01A couple of years ago, local man Derek Batten was driving through the village of Alderton, near Northampton, when he was surprised to see a sign advertising a castle and moat for sale. He was intrigued because he didn't even know there was a castle in the area. He decided to find out more – and ended up buying what was believed to be the remains of a Norman castle, now almost completely covered by trees and vegetation. Unable to discover very much else about the site, he contacted Time Team. The
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Time Team (1994)
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3. Llygadwy, Wales - The Celtic Spring
21 Jan '01In a secluded valley in Wales, what may be a medieval or even Roman trackway leads down to a natural spring. Right in the middle of it is a megalith, a large standing stone, perhaps 3,000 years older than the track. Nearby, there are the remains of what appears to be a Neolithic tomb, and overlooking it what is reputed locally to be a Norman – or maybe Roman – watchtower. Stones in a ruined building on the site have early Christian symbols inscribed on them, leading to speculation that it may ha
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Time Team (1994)
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4. Waltham Villa, Gloucestershire
28 Jan '01The team try to paint a picture of a 2,000 year-old family from the Cotswolds, an area overflowing with Roman remains.
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5. Blaenafon, South Wales - The 'Lost Viaduct'
04 Feb '01The Time Team excavate the world's first working railway at an eighteenth-century ironworks in Blaenavon in South Wales. The railway used to carry ore from the mountain to the factory and has been declared a World Heritage site.
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6. Rycote, Oxfordshire - A Palace Sold For Scrap
11 Feb '01The team have just three days to uncover the secrets of a great Oxfordshire house that supposedly played host to five reigning monarchs.
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Time Team (1994)
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7. Salisbury Plain - An Iron-Age Roundhouse
18 Feb '01The team venture on to Salisbury Plain, the army's largest training ground and one of Britain's finest areas of unexcavated archaeology. There is Roman pottery lying on the surface and an Iron Age fort nearby. Was there a thriving community on this barren landscape 2,000 years ago? And if so, how can the team protect the area from marauding tanks in the future?
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Time Team (1994)
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8. Basildon, Berkshire - The Inter-City Villa
25 Feb '01In 1838, navvies laying Brunel's Great Western Railway found two Roman floor mosaics, probably from a villa, at Lower Basildon, in Berkshire. The mosaics were broken up and the site almost forgotten until recent aerial photographs revealed a series of crop marks in the fields by the railway. Did Brunel's Great Western cut through a Roman villa? And what else might Time Team find in these fields?
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9. Holy Island, Lindisfarne
04 Mar '01The team investigate a field known as the 'palace' on the beautiful and mystical island of Lindisfarne.
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10. Bridgnorth, Shropshire - The Leaning Tower
11 Mar '01The people of Bridgnorth ask Tony and the team to create a picture of a 900 year-old castle, the only remnant of which is a 70-foot Norman Tower.
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11. Canterbury, Kent - Three Tales Of Canterbury
18 Mar '01Over the August bank holiday weekend last year, Time Team took a crew of around 100 people to Canterbury for a three-day live dig. Or, rather, for three three-day digs because the live event focused upon three different sites. One, at Blue Boy Yard, in the centre of the city, saw the Team looking for signs of the Roman temple and precinct that once stood on this site. At a second, also in the centre of Canterbury, the Team was seeking out remains of Greyfriars, Britain's first Franciscan priory.
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Time Team (1994)
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12. Winchester, Hampshire - The Leper Hospital
25 Mar '01The team journeys to historic Winchester, the capital city of England in the Middle Ages.
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