The BEST episodes of Time Team season 7
Every episode of Time Team season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Time Team season 7!
In this popular and (literally) groundbreaking programme, Tony Robinson and a team of experts travel the country to investigate a wide range of archaeological sites of historical importance.
#1 - Wierre-Effroy, France - One Of The First Spitfires Lost In France
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/2000
One of the first spitfires lost in France. It was on 23 May 1940 that a young English pilot climbed into the cockpit of his Spitfire to join a formation of aircraft flying across the Channel to help defend troops retreating in the face of the Nazi advance. Paul Klipsch, aged 24, had never flown in a combat mission before; he was never to do so again. The young pilot was shot down over northern France. He had become one of the first of the 1,500 Royal Air Force pilots who were to give their lives during the early period of the Second World War. The RAF's combat report recorded simply that he had been 'Killed in Action'. The place where his plane came down, in a farmer's field outside the small French village of Wierre-Effroy, near Boulogne, has always been known. Two brothers, Auguste and René Mierlot, had seen it shot down by a Messerschmitt 110, at about 6pm that May evening. They remembered it well because half an hour later German troops entered their village. Despite the Nazi presence, local people retrieved Paul Klipsch's body from the remains of his aircraft and buried him in the village cemetery. His grave, now marked with an RAF headstone, remains there to this day. But while the time and place of this young pilot's death had long been known, we still knew little about how and why his Spitfire crashed. Time Team decided to see what could be revealed.
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#2 - Cirencester, Gloucestershire - The Mosaic At The Bottom Of The Garden
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/2000
The Mosaic at the Bottom of the garden. The team of archaeological experts visits Cirencester, which in AD300 was one of the most important towns in Roman Britain.
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#3 - Coventry, West Midlands - The Missing Cathedral And The Diabetic Prior
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/13/2000
The missing cathedral and the diabetic prior. The team break their three day dig rule for the first time after discovering a burial chamber containing the skeleton of a Prior in a medieval cathedral under Coventry's city centre.
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#4 - Elveden, Suffolk - In Search Of The Earliest Traces Of Mankind
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/2000
In search of the earliest traces of mankind. Mick Aston describes it as one of the oddest Time Team locations he's worked at. 'By day we'd be rooting about in this ancient clay and mud and looking for traces of our ancestors from 400,000 years ago, and then in the evening we'd all go back to this Center Park's holiday camp in the middle of the forest. Very strange.' Whether or not it was the oddest, it was certainly the oldest site that Time Team has ever excavated. It was also one of the rarest. Sites showing evidence of human activity dating back 400,000 years are so uncommon in this country that the only way that Time Team was able to become involved in investigating one was by joining an established British Museum excavation. Nick Ashton, a Palaeolithic archaeologist at the British Museum, was pleased to invite the Team to bring in their expertise and resources to help out on his ongoing project at Elveden, near Thetford in Suffolk.
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#5 - Denia, Spain - A Muslim Port In Spain
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2000
A muslim port in Spain. The team visit the small Spanish port of Denia in order to investigate what life was like in the town 1,000 years ago, when it was an Islamic settlement.
#6 - Basing House, Hampshire - The Royalists' Last Stand
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/20/2000
The Royalists' last stand. The team visit Basing House in Hampshire, once one of the grandest homes in Tudor England.
#7 - Flag Fenn, Cambridgeshire - A Bronze-Age Barrow And Walkway
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/27/2000
A Bronze-Age barrow and walkway. Flag Fen, a few miles outside Peterborough, is one of the most important Bronze-Age sites in Europe. Discovered in 1982 by Francis Pryor, who is now director of the Flag Fen Laboratories and Bronze Age Centre, the area is unique in that large quantities of organic material from the period, including wood and leather, have survived, pickled in the waterlogged fenland peat. The centrepiece of this astonishing site is a one-kilometre-long alignment of posts passing across what would have been a stretch of open water during the Bronze Age and linking what was then the mainland with Northey Island. Where the alignment crosses the water, there is also a huge timber platform, some two and a half acres in extent.
#8 - Birdoswald, Cumbria - Hadrian's Wall
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/2000
The team dig up more than they bargain for when they exhume a Roman cemetery in Cumbria. Their discovery prompts them to present a shocking theory.
#9 - York
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/26/2000
The dig's archaeological highs and lows are crammed into just 60 minutes in York where the finds range from a Roman skeleton complete with hobnailed boots, a Viking's discarded leather shoe, and the pillars of a monastic hospital. But what does all the evidence show? Who were these people and how did they live?
#10 - Hartlepool - Nuns In Northumbria
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/19/2000
Nuns in Northumbria. Time Team goes in search of a lost Anglo-Saxon monastery on the rain and wind-swept Headland at Hartlepool in Northumberland. They have just 3 days to find the exact location of a monastery that 1,200 years ago had a thriving community of monks and nuns, presided over by Saint Hilda.
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#11 - Waddon, Dorset - An Iron-Age Roundhouse And A Henge
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/2000
An iron-age roundhouse and a henge. The archeological experts have just three days to find out all they can about the tiny village of Wadden in Dorset.
#12 - Greenwich Park, London - A Roman Temple In Sight Of The Millennium Dome
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/12/2000
A Roman temple in sight of the Millennium Dome. The team is in the heart of London as they dig for the remains of a Roman temple in Greenwich Park at the invitation of the Museum of London. As the 3 day dig progresses the discovery of a rare inscribed Roman stone and new evidence on the position of the famous Roman road, Watling Street, have the experts jumping up and down with excitement.
#13 - Sutton, Hereford - In Search Of The Palace Of King Offa
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/5/2000
In search of the palace of King Offa. The Time Team head for Herefordshire in search of the Royal palace of the great Anglo-Saxon leader, King Offa. Records show that he had a palatial palace in the area but its exact location has never been discovered. Tony Robinson and the team have just 3 days to come up with some evidence.