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13 Episodes 2001 - 2001
Episode 1
On 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.
Episode 2
A 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.
Episode 3
51 mins
In a secluded valley in Wales, what may be a medieval or even Roman trackway leads down to a natural spring. In the middle a megalith, a large standing stone, perhaps 3000 years older than the track and what appears to be a Neolithic tomb.
Episode 4
Waltham field, in the village of Whittington, five miles from Cheltenham. Alerted by Gloucester County Archaeology, the Team have come in search of a Roman villa.
Episode 5
Looking for the world's first railway viaduct. 40 metres long, 10 metres high and 10 arches built in 1790. Yet within 25 years it had disappeared from the landscape. There was no record of it having been demolished so where has it gone?
Episode 6
Time Team try to find the remains of a grand country house that once played host to five reigning monarchs. What was left of the original Tudor mansion, built in the 1520s and believed to have burnt down and been abandoned in 1745.
Episode 7
As well as being the British Army's biggest training ground it is one of Europe's most extensive areas of undisturbed archaeology believed to contain the remains of settlements spanning both the Iron Age and the Roman era.
Episode 8
In 1838, navvies laying Brunel's Great Western Railway found two Roman floor mosaics. 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.
Episode 9
The bones in a cave are carbon dated and trenches reveal no archaeology, but do show a trackway to the cave. Cannibalism of the bones suggests humiliation rather than need.
Episode 10
The Time Team travel to Holy Island on the Scottish English border. Their mission is to excavate an open field that is locally known as the palace' No one alive today knows the reason for the name, but the team intend to find out.
Episode 11
A tower is all that's left of a castle built 900 years ago. Occupied for around 5 centuries until it fell to Cromwell in the English Civil War. It survives today, leaning at an angle of 15 degrees. 3 times more than the tower of Pisa.
Episode 12
The Time Team travel to Canterbury to understand the religious evolution of the city. They are looking for evidence of early Roman temples to the establishment in the first settlements of Monks in England.
Episode 13
Winchester the once capital of England was also the site of one of the biggest leper colony in the country. Time Team travel to the site of the colony to try and to recreate the lives these poor people lived.