Classic Time Team

The Team is in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, to investigate what remains of Josiah Wedgwood's first factory and to discover what pottery he was making there. They find evidence of several centuries of potting and bottle kilns, including a time capsule of the pottery of Enoch Wood & Sons. They then replicate a beautiful creamware vase.

The team is in Northeast England, investigating Roman finds and a possible Roman building, unearthed in a family's back garden. The house is just 100 meters from a Roman fort, and southwest of the end of Hadrian's Wall. Geophysics are using state-of-the art Swedish radar equipment to detect foundations beneath two meters of soil.

Time Team has been invited by pupils of Thetford Grammar School in Norfolk to investigate the remains of a Dominican friary church and a 1,000-year-old Norman cathedral, in their playground! There is much interest from the pupils when the team excavates human bones.

Join the investigation, at the invitation of the cave's owner the Marquess of Bath, to see if there is evidence of Paleolithic human activity in the cave. This may be among the oldest homes in England. The ultimate aim is to get the site scheduled and thus protected from unofficial damage. However, it soon becomes clear there is a lot of preparatory work involved.

In the 12th century, many towns were designed and laid out on regular lines. The people of Plympton believe there is enough evidence to plot the layout of the medieval town which surrounds the ruins of their castle, and which was formerly owned by the immensely powerful and wealthy De Redvers family. As usual, the Time Team has three days to find it.

Looking for evidence of a 15th century dock, the team is in Small Hythe. The dock was once next to the mile-wide River Rother, but its location is now an overgrown field, ten miles from the sea. Early excavations reveal nothing more recent than wood from a prehistoric forest, so where is the dock?

Historian Guy de la Bedoyere asks the team to investigate the isolated ruins of a bath house discovered by Gerald Brodribb in the midst of dense Sussex woodland. Gerald has made a scale model of the building, and Guy explains the connection to the Roman navy. After a demonstration of dowsing from Gerald, the team's first task is to clear the land before digging.

Time Team teams up with air crash investigators to discover what happened to two B-17 bombers that crashed on 21 February 1944 into marshes near Reedham, Norfolk. There were unfortunately no survivors to recount the crash. The airplanes were returning from a bombing raid on a German target as part of the Big Week offensive.

Time Team revisits a live dig from 1997 where they found a large Roman complex in a Gloucestershire field. At the time, geophysics recorded evidence of even more buildings, so the team has returned to investigate a greatly expanded area. Almost immediately, Phil uncovers some impressive looking archaeology.

An aerial survey of a Worcestershire field has revealed crop marks leading to substantial Bronze Age finds, but Iron Age remains also exist here. Time Team tries to sort them out. Local schoolchildren help with a bit of field walking and Mick shows how crop marks and posthole marks become visible in fields.

This live dig centers on a ruined Norman church on a hill in Norfolk and promises to be the richest source of finds that Time Team has yet seen. It requires several trenches, including the longest one that Time Team has ever dug. They start with some field walking and metal detecting before digging in earnest.

Invited by historian David Small, the team are on the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis for a six-day dig to uncover the history of sugar production and slavery here. They are investigating a particular plantation, Montravers Estate, now overgrown, originally owned by wealthy 18th century Bristolean John Prater Pinney.

The team continues their dig on Nevis Island, a tiny Caribbean island home to the Montravers Estate.