This is a list of Time Team episodes from series 17.[1] The series was released on DVD (region 2) in 2013.
| Time Team | |
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| Season 17 | |
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| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | 18 April 2010 – 17 April 2011 |
| Series chronology | |
Episode
editSeries 17
editEpisode # refers to the air date order. The Time Team Specials are aired in between regular episodes, but are omitted from this list. Regular contributors on Time Team include: Tony Robinson (presenter); archaeologists Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Helen Geake; Guy de la Bedoyere (historian); Victor Ambrus (illustrator); Stewart Ainsworth (landscape investigator); John Gater (geophysicist); Henry Chapman (surveyor).[2]
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| 210 | 1 | "Corridors Of Power" | Westminster Abbey, London | 51°29′58″N 0°07′39″W / 51.49944°N 0.12750°W | 18 April 2010 | |
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Surrounded by the sites and sounds of Parliament Square the archaeologists have three days to pin down the location of a lost sacristy and uncover the Anglo Saxon origins of the Abbey. | ||||||
| 211 | 2 | "A Saintly Site" | Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides | 56°36′42″N 6°04′52″W / 56.61167°N 6.08111°W | 25 April 2010 | |
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Time Team descend on the Isle of Mull at the invitation of two local amateur archaeologists to investigate a mysterious set of earthworks in a forest near Tobermory. Could they be the remains of a chapel from the time of St Columba? | ||||||
| 212 | 3 | "Bridge Over The River Tees" | Piercebridge, County Durham | 54°32′7″N 1°40′28″W / 54.53528°N 1.67444°W | 2 May 2010 | |
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Tony Robinson and the Team get their feet wet as they examine a stretch of the River Tees where local divers have found over 2000 Roman finds. With part of the site beneath the water some of Time Team's finest have to squeeze into wet suits and brave the fast flowing river. They are joined by English Heritage's Ben Robinson. | ||||||
| 213 | 4 | "In The Halls Of A Saxon King" | Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire (actually Drayton, Oxfordshire) | 51°38′23″N 1°17′43″W / 51.63972°N 1.29528°W | 9 May 2010 | |
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The Team tries to locate one of the rarest of archaeological sites – an Anglo Saxon royal complex. Aerial photos suggest this empty Oxfordshire field could have been the home of royalty over a thousand years ago, but is it ever that simple? | ||||||
| 214 | 5 | "The Massacre In The Cellar" | Hopton Castle, Shropshire | 52°23′45″N 2°55′54″W / 52.39583°N 2.93167°W | 16 May 2010 | |
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The team visit the remains of Hopton Castle in Shropshire and attempt to put together a piece-by-piece reconstruction of the battle which took place there during the English Civil War. | ||||||
| 216 | 6 | "Potted History" | Mildenhall, Wiltshire | 51°25′23″N 1°41′27″W / 51.42306°N 1.69083°W | 23 May 2010 | |
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The team have been unearthing the remains of Cunetio, a Roman town in Mildenhall. It is the first proper excavation of the town in over fifty years. | ||||||
| 218 | 7 | "Death and Dominoes: The First POW Camp" | Norman Cross, Cambridgeshire | 52°30′20″N 00°17′25″W / 52.50556°N 0.29028°W | 3 October 2010 | |
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Tony, joined by English Heritage's Ben Robinson and others, explores the world's first built prisoner of war camp. | ||||||
| 219 | 8 | "Something For The Weekend" | Tregruk Castle, Llangybi, Monmouthshire | 51°40′17″N 2°55′15″W / 51.67139°N 2.92083°W | 10 October 2010 | |
| 221 | 9 | "Governor's Green" | Governor's Green, Portsmouth | 50°47′19″N 1°06′11″W / 50.78861°N 1.10306°W | 24 October 2010 | |
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The Team visit Portsmouth to try and uncover one of the city's oldest buildings - a medieval hospital. But after three days of bone-chilling weather and confusing archaeology can the Team work out what stood on Governor's Green over 500 years ago? | ||||||
| 222 | 10 | "Priory Engagement" | Burford, Oxfordshire | 51°48′28″N 1°38′13″W / 51.80778°N 1.63694°W | 31 October 2010 | |
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The Team descend upon the Oxfordshire town of Burford to respond to very special challenge - from Time Team's own Professor Mick Aston. They have just three days to uncover a medieval hospital under the front lawn whilst searching for Anglo Saxons in the vegetable garden. | ||||||
| 223 | 11 | "There's A Villa Here Somewhere" | Litlington, Cambridgeshire | 52°03′57″N 0°05′14″W / 52.06583°N 0.08722°W | 7 November 2010 | |
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But has 18th-century quarrying destroyed all meaninful evidence? Ben Robinson supervises this dig in the absence of Mick Aston. The end results are shown to the appreciative villagers. | ||||||
| 224 | 12 | "Commanding Heights" | Dinmore Hill, Herefordshire | 52°09′39″N 2°42′04″W / 52.16083°N 2.70111°W | 14 November 2010 | |
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Tony and the Time Team climb a remote Herefordshire hill to investigate one of the biggest prehistoric sites ever featured. Was Dinmore Hill the site of a vast Iron Age hill fort? Needless to say Stewart doesn't think so. He is going with a much earlier cross-ridge dyke. To prove it one way or the other they need dateable finds. But the dig is hampered by torrential rain. Despite this they uncover a huge, magnificent ditch, which must have been dug by thousands of people during the Iron Age. The team are joined by historian Bettany Hughes, Hereford county archaeologist Keith Ray and environmental archaeologist Mike Allen.[3] | ||||||
Notes
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References
edit- ^ "Time Team - series 17". channel 4.
- ^ "IMDB Episodes cast for Time Team". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ "Time team, Dinmore Heights - cast list". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
External links
edit- Channel 4 Time Team episode features including dig-reports and summaries by the archaeologists.
- Time Team at Channel4.com
- The Unofficial Time Team site Fan site Update for this link: 15/11/23 Domain no longer available and is up for sale. Link is inactive