Time Team

- Season 8

(2000)

Time Team travel to the small port of Denia in Spain to show what life was like 1000 years ago, when Denia was an Islamic settlement run by a pirate king.

Around 1700 years ago, Corinium - modern day Cirencester - was the second most important city in Roman Britain after Londinium. Time Team arrive to excavate in the gardens of properties in Chester Street near to the centre of old Corinium.

On 23 May 1940, Spitfire pilot Paul Klipsch flew across the Channel for his first and last day of combat. He crashed in France and was buried in the local cemetery. Time Team excavate the Spitfire and tell the story of Klipsch's last hours.

Time Team descend on the tiny village of Wadden in Dorset. Neighbours discovered a huge amount of pottery in their gardens. The pottery dated from Medieval, Roman and the Iron Age. What lies beneath five houses of the village?

The Time Team travel to Hadrian's Wall the world's longest Roman monument for the once in a lifetime investigation of A Roman burial site attached to the fort know as Birdoswald. While the excavation of the cemetery goes as expected they stumble on evidence of something far more exciting.

In search of the real-life Flintstones at one of Britain's early Stone Age sites. A holiday camp in Suffolk. The site dates back 400k years when our ancestors shared the country with lions, rhinos & elephants - but definitely no dinosaurs.

The Time Team go to Coventry to try and locate the layout of the city's first cathedral. The team does a great job locating finds in a chaotic dig criss crossed with power cables and various plumbing lines.

The Team rubs shoulders with royalty when they visit Basing House in Hampshire. It was once one of grandest homes in Tudor England and a haunt of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I - until it was destroyed by Cromwell during the Civil War.

The Team travel back to the Bronze Age to Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire. The fenland bog is home to one of the most important archaeological 'wet-sites' in the country, where the soggy conditions help preserve 3000-year-old buried timbers.

Time Team head for Herefordshire in search of the palace of the great Anglo-Saxon leader, King Offa, who ruled the kingdom of Mercia from 757 to 796. Records show that a palace was in the area but its exact location has never been found.

The Time Team excavate Roman ruins in Greenwich park. The ruins were last investigated over a 100 years ago, but the purpose of the buildings was never confirmed. The team also take the time to check an alternative theory about the route of Wattling Street.

1,200 years ago a thriving community of monks and nuns were trying to convert the pagans to Christianity. But the Saxon monastery disappeared after 200 years and lay forgotten until workmen unearthed human bones and grave markers in 1833.

The Team travel to York to excavate 3 sites from 3 different historical periods. They find a Roman skeleton with hobnail boots, a Viking's discarded leather shoe and the pillars of a monastic hospital. But what does this evidence reveal?