Classic Time Team

In the first episode of Time Team, Tony and the team travel to Athelney in Somerset to investigate a series of hills (once islands in a bog) that became Alfred The Great's last defensive positions after a series of losses to invading Viking forces. It is also the place Alfred began the great rally that saw him re-conquer most Wessex and laid the foundations for the future England.

Ribchester in Lancashire has been known for some time as a site of a Roman fort. The Time Team arrive in the town to take on two major challenges. First is to consolidate all the previous excavations on the site, and the second is to find and define the outline of a possible older wooden fort that is thought to have been in the area.

The Time Team heads to the small town of Much Wenlock after they receive a letter from a resident explaining that a recent excavation has uncovered possibly the oldest house in the town. What they discover is the remains of an old Saxon village transforming into a larger, newer Norman settlement.

The Time Team travel to Brecon Beacons in Wales. They have come to investigate a small man-made island in the middle of Llangorse Lake. Locals tell many strange legends here, including hearing the sounds of Church bells echoing across the body of water at night. The team wants to know who built the island. They try to find evidence to support the stories and how it eventually fell into disuse.