Time Team

- Season 16

(2008)

The Time team travel to Codnor Castle in Derbyshire to try and piece together the history of the castle that is nearly a 1000 years old. Among a series of wonderful discoveries they find something in the moat that takes everyone's breath away.

The team investigates an old gatehouse in Durham. They have been invited by the current owners to try and unravel the history of the building and what it was designed to protect.

Some burials have been exposed by the wind in the dunes on western Barra, dated to Middle Bronze age. An Iron age roundhouse is also found. Can the Team document them in time?

Paintpot's, the family cat, burial shows a wall. It is known that a Cistercian Nunnery existed here 900 years ago. Over the usual 3 days can the Team find the layout?

Over the usual three days, the team re-investigate a listed Roman site. Mosaics are soon found. But what were these buildings used for?

Eaglesfield Park was a site for tethering barrage balloons during WW2. There were also stop line defenses to explain. The team dig 'modern' remains and try to understand there findings. They also meet local home guard veterans.

Francis Popham started building a grand mansion in Georgian times. Only the lodge remains. Finding buried walls shows the outline of the now demolished building. Parts were reused in 1830s at Prior Park in Bath.

The team have the usual 3 days of digging in a Leicestershire field searching for a rare find, an Anglo-Saxon Hall. Phil Harding has a DNA test to reveal whether he has Anglo-Saxon roots.

A former military compound is between reverting back to a council open space. From illustrations there was a castle here. But where? The adjacent communication mast does not help geophys, nor does military grade concrete covering.

Uncovering evidence of a port near the Cornish village of Padstow.

The rocky, tree covered area is called 'The Castles' but what was it built for?

Hundreds of Roman artifacts are found all over the site. What were the Romans doing here?

King Harold built a hunting lodge in 1065 after defeating the Welsh in this field. But made from hard to trace material. Can the archaeologists find evidence?