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Time Team 2008

Click on the links below for dig reports, time trial quizzes and features from all the locations in the 2008 series.

Or you can watch our latest selection of Time Team video clips.

Link to programme 1 guide
Programme 1: Gold in the moat (6 January)
A Henry V gold noble coin is just the most dramatic find as the Team explores the various phases of the medieval castle of Codnor
Location: Derbyshire
Period: Medieval

Link to programme 2 guide
Programme 2: Street of the dead (13 January)
A 'street of tombs' and a huge early fort are discoveries of national importance for the Team at the site known as Vinovia to the Romans.
Location: Binchester, County Durham
Period: Roman

Link to programme 3 guide
Programme 3: Bodies in the dunes (20 January)
In 2005 a major storm eroded a dune next to the beach at Allasdale, Barra, exposing human remains. Time Team travelled to the island to carry out a unique rescue dig.
Location: Barra, Western Isles
Periods: Bronze Age, Iron Age

Link to programme 4 guide
Programme 4: The naughty nuns of Northampton (27 January)
When digging a grave for the family cat turns up a large stone wall, Time Team is called in to investigate. The Team uncovers the lost nunnery of Sewardsley.
Location: Towcester, Northamptonshire
Period: Medieval

Link to programme 5 guide
Programme 5: Mysteries of the mosaic (3 February)
Time Team investigates a Roman mosaic in the Cotswolds.
Location: Coberley, Gloucestershire
Period: Roman

Link to programme 6 guide
Programme 6: Blitzkrieg on Shooters Hill (10 February)
Time Team seeks out what's left of second world war defences against invasion in suburban south London
Location: South London
Period: 20th century

Link to programme 7 guide
Programme 7: Keeping up with the Georgians (17 February)
The Team goes in search of a lost Georgian mansion
Location: Hunstrete, Somerset
Period: Georgian

Link to programme 8 guide
Programme 8: Saxons on the Edge (24 February)
The Team goes in search of a possible Anglo-Saxon settlement at Knave Hill, Leicestershire
Location: Knave Hill, Leicestershire
Period: Anglo-Saxon and Iron Age

Link to programme 9 guide
Programme 9: The fort of the earls (2 March)
At least two castles have stood on this site. Time Team investigates.
Location: Dungannon, Northern Ireland
Period: Tudor and Stuart

Link to programme 10 guide
Programme 10: From Constantinople to Cornwall (9 March)
Could this site be a previously unknown trading station, one which perhaps lasted on and off for thousands of years?
Location: Padstow, North Cornwall
Period: Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman

Link to programme 11 guide
Programme 11: 5,000 tons of stone (16 March)
'The Castles', in the middle of farmers' fields is real enigma. The Team try to discover its date and function.
Location: Hamsterley, County Durham
Period: Iron Age

Link to programme 12 guide
Programme 12: The Romans recycle (23 March)
A local metal detectorist has recovered more than 300 mainly Roman metal artefacts from the area.
Location: Wickenby, Lincolnshire
Period: Iron Age, Roman, Dark Ages

Link to programme 13 guide
Programme 13: Hunting King Harold (30 March)
Could it be the remains of King Harold's hunting lodge, a Welsh royal court, or even a Roman Travelodge.
Location: Portskewett, South Wales
Period: Medieval, Dark Ages

Time Team Specials 2008


Link to Ainsbrook guide
Codename: Ainsbrook
A Time Team Special (14 January 2008)

A secretive dig is organised to investigate two metal detectorists' discovery of a Viking hoard
Location: Yorkshire
Period: Viking

Link to Windsor Castle guide
Windsor Castle
A Time Team Special (25 February 2008)

The real knights of the round table
Location: Windsor
Period: Medieval

Link to Liverpool guide
The lost dock of Liverpool
A Time Team Special (21 April 2008)

Location: Liverpool
Period: Industrial Britain

Link to Swords, skulls and strongholds guide
Link to The lost WW1 bunker guide
The lost WW1 bunker
A Time Team Special (10 November 2008)

Location: Flanders
Period: 20th century


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