• Air date: 06 Jan '02 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. Vauxhall, London - London's First Bridge

      06 Jan '02
      The team are in central London near Vauxhall Bridge where, at low tide, a group of mysterious prehistoric timbers are revealed. The team have just three days to excavate just one of these strange timbers.
    • 2. Ancaster, Lincolnshire - The Roman's Panic

      13 Jan '02
      The small Lincolnshire town of Ancaster lies on Ermine Street, which is a major Roman road heading north from London. The only Roman remains visible today are some massive earth banks and ditches, which have been dated to the 4th century. So what was here before these defences and why were they built?
    • 3. Kinlochbervie, Scotland - Diving For The Armada

      20 Jan '02
      The team investigate a beautiful jar found amongst the seaweed at Kinlochbervie to determine whether it could have belonged to the Spanish Armada.
    • 4. Chicksands, Bedfordshire - The Naughty Monastery

      27 Jan '02
      The team are invited to the Military Intelligence base at Chicksands to explore the site of a thirteenth-century unisex monastery.
    • 5. Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire - The Furnace In The Cellar

      03 Feb '02
      The team digs up a pub car park near Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire to find the remains of a seventeenth-century blast furnace for smelting iron.
    • 6. Cheshunt, Hertfordshire - An Ermine Street Pub

      10 Feb '02
      The team search for the remains of a Roman settlement in Cheshunt where Roman brick, tiles and pottery were excavated in the 1960's.
    • 7. Helford, Cornwall - Iron-Age Market

      17 Feb '02
      The team investigate Cornwall's most important Iron Age site overlooking the Helston River. The area is so big that its purpose is a mystery. Can they solve the riddle?
    • 8. High Ercall, Shropshire - Siege House In Shropshire

      24 Feb '02
      The team are in Shropshire at the location of one of the bloodiest Civil War sieges - the manor house in High Ercall.
    • 9. Throckmorton, Worcestershire - A Prehistoric Airfield

      03 Mar '02
      The team explores a disused RAF bomber base, which is revealed by a government geophysics survey to be a dense Iron Age or Bronze Age settlement.
    • 10. Castleford, Yorkshire - A Lost Roman City

      10 Mar '02
      The team are in Yorkshire to help the locals put Castleford on the Roman map by digging up a car park, a football pitch and the yard of the local British Legion.
    • 11. Beaudesert, Warwickshire - Every Castle Needs A Lord

      17 Mar '02
      A single stone stands on a hill at Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. It's the only remnant of what was once a huge medieval castle. So where is the rest of this once-proud stronghold?
    • 12. Brading, Isle of Wight - Steptoe Et Filius

      24 Mar '02
      The archaeological acumen of the Time Team is tested against the clock, shedding fascinating light on important aspects of Britain's past. On the east coast of the Isle of Wight where early Roman pottery and metalwork have been found, but as yet, there have been no buildings.
    • 13. New Forest, Hampshire - Seven Buckets And A Buckle

      31 Mar '02
      Byzantine 'buckets'; Anglo-Saxon spear heads, shields and shield bosses; a disproportionate number of double burials. The cemetery that Time Team excavated for the 2001 'Live' opened an important new window onto the 'Dark Ages'.