Time Team

- Season 5

(1997)

Time Team follow in the footsteps of some of the first English settlers in America. The journey takes them to the historic landing site of St Mary's City, Maryland to unearth some important finds.

The history of a female skeleton found in Cornwall. Was she a leper from a 13th century colony, a casualty of the Civil War, a plague victim or put to death after being tried at the Launceston Assizes in the late I6th or early 17th century.

Tony Robinson and Mick Aston call in the experts to try and locate one of the most important sites in the history of the Industrial Revolution - Matthew Boulton's 18th century mint.

Several intriguing stone sculptures have been discovered in the graveyard of the parish church. No less than 30 of these large, intricately carved gravestones in two distinct styles. Who was buried here, by whom, and why.

The intrepid archaeological treasure hunters, led by Tony Robinson, head for Malton in North Yorkshire where a swathe of nettle-infested jungle conceals 2,000 years of English history including a Roman fort.

Time Team are inside a partially abandoned army barracks in Nethcravon. But It's not military memorabilia they're after. In 1907, a Colonel Hawley found part of a mosaic in the grounds which he believed was part of a Roman villa.