Time Team is a British television series that has been airing since 1994. Presented by Tony Robinson, a team of specialists carry out an archaeological dig in three days, with Robinson explaining the process. The show “marks a new approach to archaeology on British television and sets out to capture both the excitement and immediacy of the process of discovery – archaeology as it happens.”
Over two hundred episodes of Time Team have already been aired. Sites are suggested by landowners, local archaeologists, scholars or members of the public, and have included everything from the Paleolithic period to World War II. For example programmes have featured the excavation of Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements, Roman villas and medieval churches. Several excavations have resulted in the discovery of sites of national significance, and dozens of academic papers have been written by the members of the show about their discoveries.
Jerome de Groot, writing in his book Consuming History, says Time Team, “presents archaeological investigation as a time-specific adventure, a voyage into the unknown and the harvesting of the hitherto unremarkable sites historical relevance. In some ways the locale becomes the subject of genealogical investigation, a digging into the past in order to understand the journey from that past to the present.”
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Anglo-Saxon Cemetery – examines a field in Lincolnshire for a possible burial site from Anglo-Saxon times
Over two hundred episodes of Time Team have already been aired. Sites are suggested by landowners, local archaeologists, scholars or members of the public, and have included everything from the Paleolithic period to World War II. For example programmes have featured the excavation of Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements, Roman villas and medieval churches. Several excavations have resulted in the discovery of sites of national significance, and dozens of academic papers have been written by the members of the show about their discoveries.
Jerome de Groot, writing in his book Consuming History, says Time Team, “presents archaeological investigation as a time-specific adventure, a voyage into the unknown and the harvesting of the hitherto unremarkable sites historical relevance. In some ways the locale becomes the subject of genealogical investigation, a digging into the past in order to understand the journey from that past to the present.”
Watch Episodes Online
Anglo-Saxon Cemetery – examines a field in Lincolnshire for a possible burial site from Anglo-Saxon times
Clips from various Time Team episodes
Secrets Of The Saxon Gold
Mosaic Mystery
Mysterious Castles
Dungannon Castle
Aston Eyre, Shropshire
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Time Team to show special on Dover Castle
The Real Knights of the Round Table: A Time Team Special
Castle discovered in South Northamptonshire
Time Team dig for Harold’s story
Archaeological finds in Looe
Blythburgh Abbey
Welsh link with King Harold uncovered
Man speared in eye during medieval joust for TV show
Totnes: Secrets of medieval suburbs
Salisbury Cathedral Exhibition
Provan Hall, Easterhouse
Links
Channel 4 – official Time Team site
The Unofficial Time Team website – has more information about episodes, cast and crew
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