Time Team

- Season 13

(2005)

This manor house was extended into a palace prior to Henry V111 first visit in 1534. But less than half of it remains. The current owner since the 1950's wants to know what it used to look like.

Although mentioned in the Domesday Book, was this an Anglo-Saxon village? Residents help the team uncover the origins by digging many test pits in their gardens.

Two aircraft in WW2 crashed on marsh land near Warton airfield. In three days the team recover as much as possible.

Revealed in dry weather are parch marks in the ground at Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway. The experts are certain they are Roman, but when?

Cropmarks were seen in 1996 suggesting a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, but the site has never been dug. Modern farming has drained the land making the dig easier. Evidence emerges of a Neolithic village built before Stonehenge.

Grace Dieu was Henry V's flagship. Deliberately beached in the mud of river Hamble, upriver from Bursledon. Divers dig across the stern to discover length and size of the ship.

A pot fragment is found. Is it Roman or Iron Age? Evidence of a roundhouse or a villa is needed. Can the team find evidence of Roman occupation or Iron age farming?

Jonathan's Cave, Sloping Cave and Well Cave at Wemyss have had continuous use since Pictish times. They dig through many layers of occupation. Is there a passageway between Well cave and MacDuff castle above?

A variety of places are dug, revealing medieval pottery and occupation, showing St Osyth village was an active port. A wharf is dug between tides. The adjoining field shows industry along the creek. Inland finds support this theory.

Roman artifacts continue to be found at the Legg family farm.

Paid by a local fan, geophysics get a head start at dawn on the site. Many trenches are dug and finds come quickly. This site has never been dug. Will these reveal who discarded them?

A housing estate has been built around a Roman fort. But where is the cemetery after 400 years of occupation?

Bone and pottery suggest a butchery rather than a dwelling. But experts differ.