The Time Team Specials - 01 to 10
| 16 - Ten Years Of Time Team | 17 - Hadrian's Well | 18 - The Big Dig | 19 - Steel City | 20 - Loch Tay |
Ely, Cambridgeshire. |
First broadcast on Channel 4: 17th May 2001. |
Time Team has been following an excavation in Ely, Cambridgeshire, for a 90-minute documentary screened on 17 May.
It has uncovered a remarkable picture of Ely in past centuries: channels where boats used to moor to load and unload goods; a medieval kiln with huge quantities of high-quality pottery finds; and a number of buildings fronting the road at Broad Street.
Montana, U.S.A. |
First broadcast on Channel 4: 23rd December 2001. |
Tony Robinson and Phil Harding travelled to the Rocky Mountains in Montana, USA, for this special programme on dinosaurs and the 'dinosaur hunters' who discover and dig up their fossil remains.
The methods used by the dinosaur hunters turned out to be very similar to those employed by archaeologists. And although Phil found he was making more use of a hammer and chisel than his usual digger's trowel, there was much more with which he was familiar from archaeological excavations.
After joining a museum dig to excavate the bones of the T-Rex's ancestor, they uncover the big bucks tourist industry that dinosaur hunting has spawned in the US. Their journey culminates in a trip to the Badlands, where they help dinosaur hunter Jack Horner dig up the remains of a T-Rex.
Canterbury, Kent. |
First broadcast on Channel 4: 15th April 2002. |
The team join up with 60 other archaelogists in what has been described as the most ambitious urban archaeological project Britain has ever known. Over a nine month period during 2000 and 2001, they attempt to unravel 2000 years of the city's history.
One eighth of the entire ancient city of Canterbury is being excavated in advance of a massive redevelopment scheme. The excavation, just inside the city walls in the south east of Canterbury, is known as the 'Big Dig' locally, and will take four years to complete.
The team help the archaeologists reconstruct the 2000 year old story of this historic piece of Cantebury real estate.
Gresham Street, Londonium. |
First broadcast on Channel 4: 22nd April 2002. |
Time Team followed one of the biggest excavations in the heart of London on a football pitch sized site at Gresham Street, just north of a Roman baths and just south of the amphitheatre and fort .
The excavations yielded a wealth of material that creates a picture of everyday life in Londinium. Two thousand years ago London didn't exist. It was created by the Romans in the first century AD, when they settled in the area now occupied by the City.
The settlement started as a simple bridge over the River Thames, but within 100 years it had become a bustling city with a population of 30,000.
Southward Well Reef, Samson Island, Isles Of Scilly. |
First broadcast on Channel 4: 31st October 2002. |
Tony Robinson and the archaeological team join divers attempting to recover treasure from part of the wreck of the 18th-century warship the Colossus - discovered by divers in 2001 - in order to piece together the history of the vessel.
First broadcast on Channel 4: 27th December 2002. |
First screened in 1994, next year sees the 10th year of the TV phenomenon that is Time Team.
Who would have believed back then that a programme featuring people standing in ditches in the rain would become required viewing for millions of armchair archaeologists?
London. |
First broadcast on Channel 4: 27th December 2000. |
While digging a huge site in the middle of London, archaeologists uncovered two extraordinary Roman cisterns. At the bottom of each lay the remains of a complex mechanism for drawing water out from these five metre-deep containers.
Tony, Mick and the Time Team are joining up with engineers, technologists and historians in an attempt to reconstruct one of these unique machines - and, in the process, discover how they worked and what they were for.
Gradually the oak and iron components are pieced together, but whether the machine will actually work when all the parts are assembled is anyone's guess. The road to eventual success turns out to be quite a rocky one and, as the deadline looms ever nearer, it's not just the ropes that end up getting frayed...
Highlights From The 2003 Time Team Live. |
First broadcast on Channel 4: 29th December 2003. |
Over the summer of 2003 Channel 4 ran the Time Team Big Dig. With over 10,000 participants all over the country excavating test pits each one metre square by fifty centimetres deep, and there were lots of great stories.
Most of these pits were in private gardens and the project stirred up controversies about approaches to public archaeology. Find out what went on over the summer at some of the digs featured in this Christmas Special.
Sheffield, Yorkshire. |
First broadcast on Channel 4: 22nd March 2004. |
The team followed ARCUS, the Archaeological Research and Consultancy at the University of Sheffield, on some of its excavations into Sheffield's industrial past.
Early death, deadly machinery and the worst man-made disaster in British history were revealed as Time Team documented the work of the archaeologists who have spent more than six years digging through the remains of a city that was once the biggest producer of steel in the world.
Loch Tay, Perthshire, Scotland. |
First broadcast on Channel 4: 19th April 2004. |
In the summer of 2003, a small crew from Time Team spent eight weeks in the beautiful setting of Loch Tay, Perthshire, in Scotland.
They were filming the ongoing underwater excavation of Oakbank crannog, an Iron-Age lake dwelling, which was first surveyed in 1979 and is the subject of a full-scale crannog reconstruction at the Scottish Crannog Centre on Loch Tay.