Time Team 2007
Click on the links below for dig reports, time trial quizzes and features from all the locations in the 2007 series.Or you can watch our latest selection of Time Team video clips.
Programme 1: Finds on the Fairway (14 Jan*)
Excavating an ancient keeill means digging up the seventh fairway of the Mount Murray golf course.
Location: Isle of Man
Period: AD500
Excavating an ancient keeill means digging up the seventh fairway of the Mount Murray golf course.
Location: Isle of Man
Period: AD500
Programme 2: There's no place like Rome (21 Jan)
A cornucopia of finds provide evidence of life under early Roman occupation.
Location: Blacklands, Somerset
Period: Iron Age; Roman occupation
A cornucopia of finds provide evidence of life under early Roman occupation.
Location: Blacklands, Somerset
Period: Iron Age; Roman occupation
Programme 3: School diggers (28 Jan)
A residential study centre contains evidence of a much earlier and grander existence.
Location: Hooke Court, Dorset
Period: Medieval era
A residential study centre contains evidence of a much earlier and grander existence.
Location: Hooke Court, Dorset
Period: Medieval era
Programme 4: The druids' last stand (04 Feb)
Y Werthyr, an earthworks at Amlwch, reveals one of the bloodiest events of British history.
Location: Anglesey
Period: Iron Age
Y Werthyr, an earthworks at Amlwch, reveals one of the bloodiest events of British history.
Location: Anglesey
Period: Iron Age
Programme 5: Shorncliffe Redoubt (11 Feb)
Excavation of the Shorncliffe Redoubt reveals its significance for the development of the modern day army
Location: Sandgate, Kent
Period: Georgian era
Excavation of the Shorncliffe Redoubt reveals its significance for the development of the modern day army
Location: Sandgate, Kent
Period: Georgian era
Programme 6: A port and Stilton (18 Feb)
Time Team goes to Stilton where local potter Richard Landy unearthed an almost complete Roman cheese press.
Location: Stilton, Cambridgeshire
Period: Roman occupation
Time Team goes to Stilton where local potter Richard Landy unearthed an almost complete Roman cheese press.
Location: Stilton, Cambridgeshire
Period: Roman occupation
Programme 7: A tale of two villages (25 Feb)
Time Team joins residents of Wicken in their search for a lost village.
Location: Wicken, Northamptonshire
Period: Medieval; Anglo-Saxon
Time Team joins residents of Wicken in their search for a lost village.
Location: Wicken, Northamptonshire
Period: Medieval; Anglo-Saxon
Programme 8: No stone unturned (04 Mar)
With little known about Roman activity in the north west of England, Time Team goes looking beneath the bean fields of Warburton.
Location: Warburton, Cheshire
Period: Roman occupation
With little known about Roman activity in the north west of England, Time Team goes looking beneath the bean fields of Warburton.
Location: Warburton, Cheshire
Period: Roman occupation
Programme 9: The Domesday mill (11 Mar)
The team excavate the remains of a building that was knocked down 40 years ago to try to find evidence of an earlier mill.
Location: Dotton Mill, Devon
Period: Industrial Britain
The team excavate the remains of a building that was knocked down 40 years ago to try to find evidence of an earlier mill.
Location: Dotton Mill, Devon
Period: Industrial Britain
Programme 10: The Cheyne gang (18 Mar)
Time Team helps Julia Plaistowe, the heir to the former Cheyne manor, discover the secrets of its past.
Location: Chesham Bois, Bucks
Period: Medieval era
Time Team helps Julia Plaistowe, the heir to the former Cheyne manor, discover the secrets of its past.
Location: Chesham Bois, Bucks
Period: Medieval era
Programme 11: Road to the relics (25 Mar)
A huge collection of Roman finds by local archaeologists point towards a possible Roman temple. Time Team are called in to investigate.
Location: Godstone, Surrey
Period: Roman occupation
A huge collection of Roman finds by local archaeologists point towards a possible Roman temple. Time Team are called in to investigate.
Location: Godstone, Surrey
Period: Roman occupation
Programme 12: The abbey habit (01 Apr)
Piecing together the history of a monastic landscape.
Location: Poulton, Cheshire
Period: Medieval era
Piecing together the history of a monastic landscape.
Location: Poulton, Cheshire
Period: Medieval era
Programme 13: In the shadow of the tor (08 Apr)
English Heritage and the Cornwall Historic Environment Service invite Time Team to examine and date some of the major standing monuments of Rough Tor.
Location: Bodmin Moor, Cornwall
Period: Pre-historic Britain
English Heritage and the Cornwall Historic Environment Service invite Time Team to examine and date some of the major standing monuments of Rough Tor.
Location: Bodmin Moor, Cornwall
Period: Pre-historic Britain
* First shown on Channel 4
Pugin: The God of Gothic (01 Mar)
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) designed and built six cathedrals, 40 churches and numerous private houses. His designs, buildings and writings shaped the way the Victorians thought about architecture. Time Team followed the restoration of The Grange, Pugin's family home, by the Landmark Trust, and set it in the wider context of Pugin's other work – all of it accomplished in such a short period of time because Pugin died aged just 40.
Location: Ramsgate, Kent
Period: Victorian Britain
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) designed and built six cathedrals, 40 churches and numerous private houses. His designs, buildings and writings shaped the way the Victorians thought about architecture. Time Team followed the restoration of The Grange, Pugin's family home, by the Landmark Trust, and set it in the wider context of Pugin's other work – all of it accomplished in such a short period of time because Pugin died aged just 40.
Location: Ramsgate, Kent
Period: Victorian Britain
Britain's Drowned World (24 Apr)
Ten thousand years ago, before sea levels rose at the end of Ice Age, a huge area of land connected Britain to the European continent. 'Doggerland', as it has been dubbed, possessed rich natural resources and would have been a mini-paradise for the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who dwelt there. In this Time Team Special, Tony Robinson and the team call upon the leading experts to piece together the story of this fascinating drowned world.
Location: 'Doggerland'
Period: Pre-historic Britain
Ten thousand years ago, before sea levels rose at the end of Ice Age, a huge area of land connected Britain to the European continent. 'Doggerland', as it has been dubbed, possessed rich natural resources and would have been a mini-paradise for the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who dwelt there. In this Time Team Special, Tony Robinson and the team call upon the leading experts to piece together the story of this fascinating drowned world.
Location: 'Doggerland'
Period: Pre-historic Britain
Jamestown – America's Birthplace (01 May)
Thirteen years before the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth in the Mayflower, 105 men in three ships were the first to establish a permanent English settlement on the American continent. They named it Jamestown, after James I, who was king of England at the time. In 1698 following a fire, the original site of Jamestown was abandoned. In 1994 an archaeological project to see what could be found out about old Jamestown was set up. As Time Team discovered, some of the finds have been stunning.
Location: Jamestown, USA
Period: The Stuarts
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Thirteen years before the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth in the Mayflower, 105 men in three ships were the first to establish a permanent English settlement on the American continent. They named it Jamestown, after James I, who was king of England at the time. In 1698 following a fire, the original site of Jamestown was abandoned. In 1994 an archaeological project to see what could be found out about old Jamestown was set up. As Time Team discovered, some of the finds have been stunning.
Location: Jamestown, USA
Period: The Stuarts
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