Time Team HD

The Time Team is on the trail of a medieval mystery Founded by Henry V and built by his son Henry VI Syon Abbey was a large wealthy monastery for nuns of an obscure Swedish order During the reign of Henry VIII it vanished until now What the team finds is on a huge scale but there is disagreement as to what kind of building it was It will take a deeper look to come to a conclusion

Theres a round island of stones in Loch Migdale Could it be a crannog Two hundred meters away on the banks is a small circular feature a henge perhaps The Time Team gathers experts on the prehistoric to find out They set up a suction dredge to investigate two areas of the loch feature and find wonderfully preserved timber From there it is easy for the team to deduce the structure

The Time Team investigates a possible 5thcentury cemetery in a plowed field where they find a metal shield boss One male skeleton is holding a drinking vessel There are hints of much earlier activity including a Bronze Age barrow Using authentic tools they fashion a Saxon shield and then demonstrate how the shields were most effectively used in battle

Nobody knows what happened immediately after the Romans arrived in 43 AD because no Roman fort has been discovered in this part of South East England Time Team is on a mission to find the missing link Local archaeologist Paul Wilkinson believes he has already found a military ditch which would surround such a fort Its an excellent site right next to Watling Street However geophysicists cannot

Green Island in Poole Harbour has already shown that it was a significant center of Iron Age activity with evidence of industrial advancement and trading to and from the continental mainland The Time Team has their hands full as the island is a Site of Special Scientific Interest meaning they can only dig by hand Not soon after they begin the finds start to multiply

A team of archaeologists has just three days to excavate the site of an Elizabethan blast furnace after finding clues in a test pit dug as part of Time Team Big Dig The team also explores medieval furnaces at the nearby East Wall and tries smelting their own iron

When the tide recedes on the Severn estuary rare evidence of stoneage activity is uncovered The Time Team is on a threeday mission to help recover some of these relics before they are washed away The Mesolithic period is poorly understood because these people were mobile huntergatherers who did not build permanent structures Phil finds the tooth of an aurochs an extinct giant animal

The British landscape is littered with Iron Age hill forts A local archaeology unit is excavating such a hill fort in Oxfordshire but cannot afford to investigate a neighboring hill only 200 meters away which is much larger and more enticing Both Roman and Iron Age remains have been found there in the past Can the Time Team help them out with their dilemma It would be a win for all

Digging up fields and car parks and back gardens is all well and good but how could the Time Team pass up a chance to dig up a living room The manor house in Nassington was purchased in a derelict state While restoring it several massive post holes were investigated that seem to be of a size and spacing to have supported the structure of a Saxon Great Hall

As renowned Suffolk archaeologist Basil Brown discovered Castle Hill near Ipswich is named not after a castle but a substantial Roman villa Brown was unable to complete his excavation so the Time Team has been called in by local schoolchildren to find out more They will need to dig up a few back gardens to do so and soon it becomes clear that Browns measurements were offkilter

A succession of kings held court at Old Roxburgh or Rokesburg as it was then called and the Royal burgh by the banks of the Tweed became the largest wool trading center in Europe Rokesburg competed with Edinburgh Stirling and Berwick as the kingdoms most influential place but while the other three settlements survived almost nothing remains of Old Roxburgh above ground level

Pigs rooting in a windswept field in Dorset unearthed ancient fragments of Roman mosaic floor tiles In addition a Bournemouth University excavation team located some burials nearby The farmer Simon Meaden has asked the Time Team to investigate further Johns geophysics survey reveals a lot of activity and soon multiple finds start appearing Tony is even allowed to dig up a small beaker