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The Time Team travel to Syon House in London to try and locate a huge Monastery that dates back to the time of Henry VI.

In Search of the Brigittine Abbey

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Archaeology isn&rsquo;t just about digging up the mysterious remains of the long dead. It can reveal how we used to live in amazing detail. Time Team is an award&ndash;winning series that has been on the UK&rsquo;s Channel 4 for 20 years.
In the latest season, Tony Robinson and his team explore brand new sites and uncover their hidden secrets. The series focuses on one archaeological dig in every programme with the locations for the digs chosen by the team from suggestions by viewers as to where there might be an archaeological mystery.
The team have three days to dig, research and reveal &ndash; excavating everything from Palaeolithic remains to oddities from the much more recent past. Illuminating CGI and experts bring the past to life as the dig unfolds and items buried for hundreds, maybe thousands of years see the light of day

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The team excavates an ancient Briton henge and a crannog in the loch. In 1900 the Migdale hoard was found in a granite quarry nearby – but where?

The Crannog in the Loch

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After the field walkers and metal detectorist make discoveries, the team digs in a field for an Anglo Saxon burial or Bronze age barrow.

Saxon Burials on the Ridge

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Nobody knows what happened immediately after the Romans arrived in England in 43 AD. The Time Team is on a mission to find the missing link.

The Roman Fort That Wasn't There

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Green Island in Poole Harbour has already proven to be a significant center of Iron Age activity. The Time Team quickly realizes they are in a trove.

An Iron Age Trading Center

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The team excavates the site of an Elizabethan blast furnace, explores other medieval furnaces at the East Wall, and tries smelting their own iron.

A Medieval Blast Furnace

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In the Severn estuary, rare evidence of stone-age activity is uncovered. The Time Team is on a three-day mission to help recover some of the relics.

Rescuing a Mesolithic Foreshore

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The British landscape is littered with Iron Age hill forts. The Time Team helps a local archaeology unit short on resources excavate one of the forts.

Fertile Soils, Rich Archaeology

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Digging up fields and car parks and back gardens is all well and good, but how could the Time Team pass up a chance to dig up a living room?

King Cnut's Manor

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The Time Team searches for a Roman Villa on a 1950s housing estate. It should be easy, as it was previously dug up, but the team is in for a surprise.

Back-Garden Archaeology: Revisiting a Roman Villa

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The team heads to Ipswich to educate local students about the castle that gave the town its name, and they come to a revelation on the Villa's size.

The Lost City of Roxburgh

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Pigs rooting in a windswept field in Dorset unearth ancient fragments of Roman mosaic floor tiles. The Time Team comes in to investigate further.

Brimming with Remains

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The Time Team excavates a previously unknown section of Westminster Abby. As they do, they begin to make discoveries far older and more critical.

Corridors Of Power

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The team travels to the Isle of Mull to investigate strange structures found deep in a forest. Could it be a previously unknown Christian Church?

A Saintly Site

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The team visits the site of a Roman fort and looks at the many anomalies, such as why there appear to be three different bridges across the river.

Bridge Over The River Tees

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The Time Team may have discovered the home of royalty over 1,000 years ago, but it will take three days of digging to find out for sure.

In The Halls Of A Saxon King

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The Time Team visits Hopton Castle, the site of a great and bloody massacre during the English Civil War, to establish how much of the report is true.

The Massacre In The Cellar

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The Time Team conducts the first proper excavation of Cunetio in over fifty years. Will they discover something that others have not?

Potted History

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The Time Team visits the previously untouched site of Norman Cross and has three days to uncover what life was like for POWs during the time.

Death and Dominoes: The First POW Camp

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The team goes to a castle site in Wales with mysteries hidden behind its walls. What will they uncover when they investigate several empty spaces?

Something For The Weekend

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The team visits Portsmouth to try and uncover a medieval hospital. Can the Time Team work out what stood on Governors Green?

Governor's Green

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The Time Team descends upon the Oxfordshire town of Burford to respond to a very special challenge from Time Team's own Professor Mick Aston.

Priory Engagement

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The team hunts for the missing remains of one of Britain's biggest Roman villas. Has 18th-century quarrying destroyed all meaningful evidence?

There's A Villa Here Somewhere

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The team, joined by Bettany Hughes, Keith Ray, and Mike Allen, investigates one of the program's most significant prehistoric sites ever featured.

Commanding Heights

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In 1825, Edmund Tyrell Artis claimed to have found Roman statues, buildings, and even burials in the woods. Was it all an elaborate hoax?

Rooting For The Romans

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The Time Team visits Gateholm Island off the coast of Wales. The only way to get to it is by rigging a 500-meter zip line above jagged rocks.

Dig By Wire

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Visit the fascinating enigma, Bitterley, where the church and manor house lay separate from the village green, across a mysterious, empty field.

A Village Affair

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The team travels to Dunwich, a village falling off the edge of England. This is their last chance to find out more before it's lost to the sea.

The Drowned Town

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The Time Team travels to the birthplace of horse racing in England, in search of what could be the world's first stables dedicated to the sport.

The First King of Racing

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The Time Team travels to Beadnell to explore the unusual appearance of human bones. Where did they come from, and what were they used for?

Chapel of Secrets

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The Time Team visits Swansea, the once-world-leader in copper smelting, and investigates one of the very first copper works, White Rock.

A Copper-bottomed Dig

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Tony and the team tear up the pristine lawns of a stately home in search of the secrets of its illustrious former owners: the de Veres family.

The Only Earl Is Essex

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Eight hundred years ago, the people of Kenfig thought they had built the perfect town, but it vanished mysteriously. What happened to this utopia?

Secrets of the Dunes

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The Time Team visits an incredible set of Roman ruins in Caerleon, South Wales – one of the best-preserved examples of Roman archaeology in Britain.

Rome's Wild West

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For generations, Somerset farmers have wondered if there was ever a castle on top of the hill they call "Castle Hill." It's time for the team to dig!

How to Lose a Castle

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The Team heads into Sherwood Forest, where some impressive ruins in a farmer's field may have played a part in the ancient tales of Robin Hood.

King John's Lost Palace

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What was life was like for World War I’s Machine Gun Corps? Explore the secrets of Belton House, the stately home where these soldiers were trained.

The Forgotten Gunners of WWI

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Aerial photography of the Roman fort of Branodunum has revealed crop marks, substantial buildings, and impressive finds from the Roman occupation.

Brancaster

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The Time Team investigates Caerau Hillfort, near Cardiff, that may be immensely significant. Could it have been the Iron Age capital of South Wales?

A Capital Hill

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Joined by other experts, Tony and the team help Hektor Rous piece together the mysterious history of the family's Tudor country home in Suffolk.

Henham's Lost Mansions

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The Time Team works with Operation Nightingale volunteers to investigate the ancient Barrow Clump on Salibury Plain. Rare artifacts are discovered.

Warriors

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An expedition to the Lake District takes Tony and the team higher and deeper than ever as they search for a forgotten piece of the nation’s heritage.

Lost Mines of Lakeland

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The Time Team travels to Rutland to investigate Oakham Castle, Britain’s best-preserved 12th-century building. Its grounds are full of mysteries.

Horseshoe Hall

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An Oxfordshire field has been giving up Roman remains since the 1960s. Tony and the team wonder if this could be the site of a grand Roman villa.

Mystery of the Thames-side Villa

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Tony and the team work with experts from Queen’s University, Dublin, to investigate an impressive ruin in County Down, Northern Ireland.

The Lost Castle of Dundrum

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The Time Team tries to piece together a complete picture of the Manor of the More, a once-impressive palace masterminded by Cardinal Wolsey.

Wolsey's Lost Palace

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Could Upton Castle in Pembrokeshire be one of the Anglo-Norman castles built to defend “Little England beyond Wales”? The Time Team wants to know.

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