Season 7

episodes

1. 1. A Muslim Port In Spain - Denia, Spain 2000-01-02 50 min 1000 years ago, the port of Denia on the Costa Blanca used to be a thriving Islamic outpost in medieval Europe, before being Christianised in 1242. During this period Spain benefitted from a sophistic...
2. 2. The Mosaic at the Bottom of the Garden - Cirencester, Gloucestershire 2000-01-09 50 min In 300 A.D. Corinium Dobunnorum was England's wealthiest city next to Londinium. Now it's the pleasant Gloucestershire town of Cirencester, and Time Team are visiting the leafy suburban Chester Street...
3. 3. One of the First Spitfires Lost in France - Wierre-Effroy, France 2000-01-16 50 min On 23 May 1940 a Spitfire (P9373) flown by RAF pilot Paul Klipsch crashed into a field in Wierre-Effroy, France. Time Team, in concert with WWII aircraft historians and air crash investigator Steve Mo...
4. 4. An Iron-Age Roundhouse and a Henge - Waddon, Dorset 2000-01-23 50 min Time Team are doing a spot of gardening. Residents have presented them with evidence of historical activity, in the form of pottery shards and lumps and bumps in the landscape. While Victor sketches o...
5. 5. Hadrian's Wall - Birdoswald, Cumbria 2000-01-30 50 min The team carry out the first-ever excavation of a cemetery at a Roman fort. This one is a World Heritage Site on Hadrian's Wall, delineating Roman Britain's northern boundary. Dead soldiers would have...
6. 6. In Search of the Earliest Traces of Mankind - Elveden, Suffolk 2000-02-06 50 min Beneath a modern holiday village in Suffolk lies evidence of early Stone Age activity, 400,000 years ago. Human remains from this period in England are exceedingly rare, but the team hope to find anim...
7. 7. The Missing Cathedral and the Diabetic Prior - Coventry, West Midlands 2000-02-13 50 min Coventry's modern cathedral replaced the old cathedral, bombed to destruction by the Luftwaffe in World War II. A 3rd cathedral, St. Mary's, was also a Benedictine priory, demolished in the 16th centu...
8. 8. The Royalists' Last Stand - Basing House, Hampshire 2000-02-20 50 min Basing House in Hampshire, owned by the Paulet family was once one of the largest private homes in Britain until besieged and destroyed in the English Civil War. Most of the ruins are a Protected Anci...
9. 9. A Bronze-Age Barrow and Walkway - Flag Fenn, Cambridgeshire 2000-02-27 50 min The team have their work cut out in the Cambridgeshire fenland, looking for remnants of an ancient culture in the flat landscape. The long wooden track would function as a barrier, defence and ritual...
10. 10. In Search of the Palace of King Offa - Sutton, Hereford 2000-03-05 50 min Time Team are in Freen's Court on the English-Welsh border. A recent aerial photograph shows parch marks. The kingdom of Mercia was ruled by the ruthless eighth century King Offa. Could this be his pa...
11. 11. A Roman Temple in Sight of the Millennium Dome - Greenwich Park, London 2000-03-12 50 min The team dig for Roman remains in Greenwich Park, London. They are joined by Hedley Swain from the Museum of London, Harvey Sheldon from the University of London and Mark Hassel from University Colleg...
12. 12. Nuns in Northumbria - Hartlepool, County Durham 2000-03-19 50 min In 1833 builders in Hartlepool, Northumbria found name stones and skeletons in what once was the graveyard of Hartlepool Abbey. Time Team investigates what remains of the monastery led by St Hilda in...
13. 13. The Roman Fortress of Eboracum - York, Yorkshire 2000-03-26 50 min The team head to the ancient city of York for a special live dig. Finds include a Roman skeleton with hobnailed boots, and a Viking leather shoe. They are joined by Barney Sloane (site supervisor), Pe...