The 1999 Series.
1999: Series Six.
1999 Series, Episode 01 - Burslem, Stoke On Trent.
   
   
     
  The team revisits Burslem, which was the site of Josiah Wedgwood's first pottery factory. As well as unearthing evidence of Britain's heritage, the team have to avoid the pitfalls of digging in a busy town centre with its network of underground pipes and cables. On the hunt to find the 18th century ceramic manufacturing premises, the team do exactly that. They also find pottery dating as far back as the 14th century, changing the way archaeologists view the history of pottery production in that area.  
   
 
1999 Series, Episode 02 - Papcastle, Cumbria.
   
     
  When a local resident gets in touch about some substantial stonework he's dug out of his garden, the team soon discover evidence for a settlement only 100 metres away from a Roman fort known to be there. What will the site tell us about people's daily lives nearly 2,000 years ago, and what were the Romans doing in Papcastle anyway?What they find may change the way we look at Roman Britain.  
   
 
1999 Series, Episode 03 - Thetford, Norfolk.
   
     
  Tony Robinson leads the archaeological sleuths in a hunt for what lies beneath Thetford Grammar School in Norfolk. The team test the truth of the school's claim to be built on the site of a grand Norman Cathedral. But first they have to dig their way down through a medieval monastery. They try to discover traces of a Norman cathedral beneath the ruins of a Dominican friary and much later school buildings, with the students helping in both the research and the trowelling. But the fact that the cathedral was in existence for a mere 24 years makes their job more difficult than usual.  
   
 
1999 Series, Episode 04 - Cheddar Gorge, Somerset.
   
   
     
  The team have been invited to Cooper's Hole in the Cheddar Gorge by the Marquess of Bath, owner of one side of the gorge to search of Palaeolithic human activity. Digging into a roadside cave in search of prehistoric flint tools and human remains turns out to be quite a challenge, as thousands of years of rainfall have washed tons of mud into the cave. The diggers must also follow stringent archaeological standards, using sensitive sampling methods - not easy in such extreme conditions. The diggers face one of the most arduous digs in the series' history - and all for the prize of one tiny bone.  
   
 
1999 Series, Episode 05 - Plympton, Devon.
   
     
 

Tony leads the team in Plympton, Devon, where a ruined Norman castle towers over the area. But what else is there hidden beneath the gardens of the modern houses? A few unearthed lawns later, they find out. From the jumble of nine centuries of development, the team attempt to find enough of Plympton's medieval origins to plot its original layout, putting together pieces of the village's historical jigsaw and rekindling local interest in the past.

  
   
 
1999 Series, Episode 06 - Smallhythe, Kent.
   
     
 

Tony Robinson and the Time Team travel to the seaside village of Smallhythe in Kent to investigate the local rumour that, around the time of the Battle of Agincourt in the 1400s, the village was a royal dockyard big enough to build 1,000-ton ships. Where are the docks now, and where is the estuary big enough to launch those great wooden ships?

  
   
 
1999 Series, Episode 07 - Beauport Park, East Sussex.
   
     
  Tony Robinson and the Time Team visit the site of a Roman bath house discovered near a golf course at Beauport Park in Sussex. It is one of the best-preserved Roman buildings in southern England, and the eager archaeologists are there to investigate the theory that the bath house is not the only Roman building on the site.  
   
 
1999 Series, Episode 08 - Reedham Marshes, Norfolk.
   
   
     
  In February 1944, two American B17 bombers - part of a large group returning to their East Anglian base after a raid on Germany - collided and crashed into the Reedham Marshes in Norfolk, with the loss of 21 lives. Tony Robinson, the Time Team and aviation historians excavate what remains of one of the bombers in order to try to determine the cause of the crash.  
   
 
1999 Series, Episode 09 - Turkdean, Gloucestershire.
   
   
     
 

Revisiting an excavation for the first time, the team tries to make sense of the spectacular geophysics results they hadn't had time to investigate during the 1998 live. Another large Roman house emerges, with finds of Roman graffiti and beautiful brooches.

  
   
 
1999 Series, Episode 10 - Kemerton, Worcestershire.
   
     
  Tony Robinson and the team unlock the secrets of an Iron Age village in Kemerton in the Malvern Hills. Roping in some local oxen, they learn to plough in the same way as our distant ancestors.  
   
 
1999 Series, Episode 11 - Bawsey, Norfolk.
   
     
  The discovery of the remains of a murdered man whose skull had been sliced through is the gruesome highlight of the team's investigations at Bawsey St James in Norfolk. They conclude that such a wound could only have been inflicted by a swordsman travelling at high speed on a horse - and this stretch of the Norfolk coast would have been strategically important and exposed to invasion from Vikings.  
   
 
1999 Series, Episode 12 - Nevis, West Indies - Part 1.
   
     
  Tony Robinson and the team enter the unknown on the Caribbean island of Nevis in a special two-part dig. After travelling through thick jungle, they investigate the ruined site of Montravers - the grand home of an 18th-century Bristol-based family of sugar plantation owners. In contrast, they also discover the site of a slave village on the estate.  
   
 
1999 Series, Episode 12 - Nevis, West Indies - Part 2.
   
     
  In the second of this two-part special from the beautiful Caribbean island of Nevis, Tony Robinson and the team discover the long-lost colonial capital, Jamestown, and prove conclusively that it was not destroyed by a tidal wave. While battling against the tail of Hurricane Mitch, they also discover the remains of a 1,500-year-old Amerindian village, one of the earliest settlements in the Caribbean.  
   
 
 
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