Time Team: The Team's Favorite Digs

This manor house was extended into a palace prior to Henry VIII visit in 1534. But less than half of it remains. The current owner wants to know what it used to look like.

Although mentioned in the Domesday Book, was this an Anglo-Saxon village? Residents help the team uncover the town’s origins by digging many test pits in their gardens.

In World War II, two aircrafts crashed on marsh land near Warton airfield. In three days, the team recover as much as possible.

Revealed in dry weather are parch marks in the ground around Drumlanrig Castle. The experts are certain they are Roman, but when were they made?

Cropmarks were seen in 1996 suggesting a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, but the site was never explored. Evidence begins to emerge of a Neolithic village built before Stonehenge.

Grace Dieu was Henry V's flagship. Deliberately beached in the mud of river Hamble, divers dig across the stern in hopes of discovering length and size of the ship.

A pot fragment is found on the site. Is it Roman or Iron Age? Evidence of a roundhouse or a villa is needed, and the team searches for evidence of Roman occupation and Iron age farming.

Jonathan's Cave, Sloping Cave, and Well Cave at Wemyss have had continuous use since Pictish times. The team digs through many layers of occupation, and begin to suspect there is a passageway between Well cave and MacDuff castle above.

The team explores a variety of places, revealing medieval pottery and occupation to show St Osyth village was an active port.

Roman artifacts continue to be found at the Legg family farm. The team comes to investigate.

Paid by a local fan, geophysics get a head start at dawn on the site. Many trenches are dug and finds come quickly; the team hopes to reveal who discarded them.

A housing estate has been built around a Roman fort. But where is the cemetery after 400 years of occupation?

Bone and pottery suggest a butchery rather than a dwelling. But experts’ opinions differ.