The WORST episodes of Time Team
Every episode of Time Team ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Time Team!
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 - Modbury Community Dig - Day 3
Season 23 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/7/2024
For our latest three-day dig, Time Team joins forces with the people of Modbury to uncover their dramatic history. We hunt for clues throughout the town, in attics in living rooms, and under brand new lawns. We're looking for for evidence of Civil Wars that raged through the town in the 17th century. Time Team are joined by Jim Stetson, whose family sat at the heart of the community before they left for America to find their fortune making hats. But will we piece together the dramatic ups and downs of Modbury and its fascinating history? We have just one day left to do it!
#2 - Modbury Community Dig - Day 2
Season 23 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/6/2024
For our latest three-day dig, Time Team joins forces with the people of Modbury to uncover their dramatic history. We hunt for clues throughout the town, in attics in living rooms, and under brand new lawns. We're looking for for evidence of Civil Wars that raged through the town in the 17th century. Time Team are joined by Jim Stetson, whose family sat at the heart of the community before they left for America to find their fortune making hats. But will we piece together the dramatic ups and downs of Modbury and its fascinating history? We have just two days left to do it!
#3 - Modbury Community Dig - Day 1
Season 23 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/2024
For our latest three-day dig, Time Team joins forces with the people of Modbury to uncover their dramatic history. We hunt for clues throughout the town, in attics in living rooms, and under brand new lawns. We're looking for for evidence of Civil Wars that raged through the town in the 17th century. Time Team are joined by Jim Stetson, whose family sat at the heart of the community before they left for America to find their fortune making hats. But will we piece together the dramatic ups and downs of Modbury and its fascinating history? We have just three days to do it!
#4 - Poole Quay, Dorset - Expedition Crew: Mortar Wreck
Season 22 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/10/2023
Time Team's Expedition Crew returns to investigate a Medieval shipwreck off the South coast of England, laden with a fascinating cargo. Derek Pitman and Lawrence Shaw spend a day with the dive team from Bournemouth University Maritime Archaeology to uncover 700 year-old secrets hidden beneath the waves.
#5 - Norfolk - Anglo-Saxon Cemetery (Day 3)
Season 22 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/2/2023
It's our final day in Norfolk, where Time Team have been called in by Dr Helen Geake to investigate the site of an early Medieval burial that has unearthed some incredible finds. Can the team make sense of this intriguing site? We have just one day left to find o
#6 - Norfolk - Anglo-Saxon Cemetery (Day 2)
Season 22 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/1/2023
It's Day 2 in Norfolk, and Time Team have been called in by Dr Helen Geake to investigate the site of an early Medieval burial that has unearthed some incredible finds. Can the team relocate the grave and is it the site of a larger cemetery? We have just three days to find out!
#7 - Norfolk - Anglo-Saxon Cemetery (Day 1)
Season 22 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/30/2023
Time Team have been called in by Dr Helen Geake to investigate the site of an early Medieval burial in Norfolk that has unearthed some incredible finds. Can the team relocate the grave and is it the site of a larger cemetery? We have just three days to find out!
#8 - Vlochos, Greece - Expedition Crew: Hidden City (Part 2)
Season 22 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/2/2023
Time Team's Dr Derek Pitman and Lawrence Shaw are part of an international team investigating an ancient settlement at Vlochos, in Thessaly. This ongoing project is uncovering a thousand years of history buried just beneath the surface. In Time Team's very first international Expedition Crew episodes, we join the team for a season to help shed more light on this fascinating site.
#9 - Vlochos, Greece - Expedition Crew: Hidden City (Part 1)
Season 22 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/1/2023
Time Team's Dr Derek Pitman and Lawrence Shaw join an international team of experts investigating an ancient settlement in central Greece. This ongoing project is uncovering a thousand years of history buried just beneath the surface. In Time Team's very first international Expedition Crew episodes, we join the team for a season to help shed more light on this fascinating site.
#10 - Halston Hall, Shropshire - Knights Hospitaller Preceptory (Day 3)
Season 22 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/2023
It's the final day at Halston Hall, Shropshire, where Time Team are trying to locate a possible Knights Hospitaller preceptory. Can we make sense of another complex site? Join us to find out!
#11 - Halston Hall, Shropshire - Knights Hospitaller Preceptory (Day 2)
Season 22 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/25/2023
It's Day 2 at Halston Hall, Shropshire, where Time Team are trying to locate a possible Knights Hospitaller preceptory.
#12 - Halston Hall, Shropshire - Knights Hospitaller Preceptory (Day 1)
Season 22 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/24/2023
Time Team are at Halston Hall, Shropshire, where Stewart Ainsworth believes he's found a lost Knights Hospitaller preceptory. Is Stewart right? The team have just three days to find out!
#13 - Oxfordshire - Expedition Crew: Return to the Roman Sarcophagus (Day 2)
Season 22 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/23/2022
Time Team returns to Broughton Roman Villa to investigate the mysterious stone sarcophagus that originally led to the site's discovery. In September 2021, the full team had the usual three days to shed light on a huge Roman villa on the Broughton Castle estate. But with questions still remaining unanswered, we've sent in our new Expedition Crew for a closer look. It's our second and final day in Oxfordshire. Can we answer all of our questions in the time remaining?
#14 - Oxfordshire - Expedition Crew: Return to the Roman Sarcophagus (Day 1)
Season 22 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/22/2022
Time Team returns to Broughton Roman Villa in Oxfordshire to investigate the mysterious stone sarcophagus that originally led to the site's discovery. In September 2021, the full team had the traditional three days to shed light on a huge villa on the Broughton Estate, originally discovered by Time Team's Keith Westcott. But with questions surrounding the sarcophagus remaining unanswered, we've sent in our new Expedition Crew for a closer look. Can the team relocate the burial? And what will we find? There's a lot to do and – on this occasion – only two days to do it!
#15 - Warburton, Cheshire - No Stone Unturned
Season 14 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/4/2007
No Stone Unturned. The team arrive at a field outside Cheshire where metal-detector enthusiasts have made several valuable finds in the past, hinting the site was once a very active Roman settlement. As the dig progresses, their initial predictions are confounded and the team must redouble their efforts if they are to solve the mystery.
#16 - Hamsterley, County Durham - Five Thousand Tons Of Stone
Season 15 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/16/2008
The Time Team travel to County Durham to investigate the origins of a mysterious large stone structure which has had locals baffled for centuries. The stone structure is known locally as The Castles, its five-metre thick walls enclose a space the size of a football pitch.With guesses ranging from an Iron Age farm to a Roman prison, Tony Robinson and the team attempt to come up with a definitive answer.
#17 - South Shields, Tyneside - Tower Blocks And Togas
Season 12 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/20/2005
Somewhere under this grass is a Roman cemetery containing the remains of soldiers from all over the empire who were stationed here in South Shields. We know it’s here because Victorian builders found loads of bodies. The fort was in use for 300 years, so the cemetery could be huge, and it’s not just full of your average Roman squaddies. There were troops from Spain & Africa there is even an intriguing reference to what could be a unit of Iraqi’s. There is just one problem, the whole thing is under a housing estate and we’ve got just 3 days to try to crack it.
#18 - Caerwent, South Wales - Toga Town
Season 16 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/2009
Caerwent is the best-preserved Roman town in Britain. Laid out on a grid pattern, it has 20 blocks within its walls, which still stand at heights of up to five metres in places. Previous excavations have uncovered roads, temples, shops, baths, houses and villas, as well as the forum and basilica, the town's political centre.
#19 - Brimham, Harrogate, North Yorkshire - The Monks' Manor
Season 13 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/5/2006
The Monk's Manor - Brimham Medieval Monastic Farm. Tony Robinson's archaeological team travel to the Yorkshire Dales to meet Chris and Barbara Bradley on their farm to uncover the remains of a monastic grange - a medieval forerunner to the grand country house.
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#20 - Sandgate, Kent - Sharpe's Redoubt
Season 14 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/11/2007
Shorncliffe Redoubt.On the 1st February 1793, the new French Republic declared war on Britain. Bracing itself for an expected invasion, the British began improving her defences. One year later, Parliament bought land at Shorncliffe and built a redoubt [a fort], a piece of land which was considered as an obvious point of attack from the French.
#21 - Tregruk Castle, South Wales - Something for the Weekend
Season 17 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/10/2010
Tony Robinson and the Team find themselves lost in the mists of a Welsh forest as they investigate one of the biggest castles in Britain. Their task is to investigate the castle's mysterious interior and find out how this impressive structure fitted into a network of fortresses built by powerful English barons 700 years ago.
#22 - The Time Team Guide to Experimental Archaeology
Season 20 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/17/2013
Tony Robinson celebrates the more than 150 practical experiments and re-creations that he and the Team have conducted over 20 years in order to unlock the mysteries exposed by their digs. Rebuilding - and even reliving - the past is a controversial area of archaeology. But it's one that Time Team has long championed, and one that has yielded some amazing results. This programme revisits some of the programme's greatest hits, from recreating individual objects such as Stone Age axes, Roman pewter bowls, medieval pottery and a Stone Age sword that throws new light on the myth of King Arthur's Excalibur, to building an entire Iron Age house and a Roman machine that lifted water from a deep well. The programme also revisits some of Time Team's forays into living history, from finding out what it felt like to be in Dad's Army to surviving 24 hours as a Victorian prisoner, in an attempt to see the past through our ancestors' eyes. Plus how a huge and - at times - contentious experiment for the programme finally solved the riddle of Seahenge.
#23 - A Capital Hill
Season 20 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/2013
Time Team investigate a huge hill near Cardiff that may be immensely significant; is it the long-lost Iron Age capital of South Wales? During the course of their investigations the archaeologists make one particularly rare discovery: the most complete Early Iron Age cup ever found in South Wales, which proves that the site is from the earliest part of the Iron Age, at around 800BC. A huge hill dominates the Ely housing estate in Cardiff. Its towering ramparts and deep ditches identify it as a hillfort, and the effort of their construction indicates that this was no ordinary Iron Age homestead. The site's so big that thousands of people could have lived up here. It's never been explored before. If there were houses, none are visible now and the age of the fort has always been a mystery. Tony Robinson and the Team have five acres of hilltop, half a mile of ramparts and ditches and just three days to answer some very big questions. Fortunately local residents are keen to help, and finds such as jewellery and fine drinking vessels show that Iron Age domestic life in the area was rich and colourful. But finding any houses is harder than anyone imagined and provokes fierce arguments amongst the Team as time ticks away. But the hours of careful scraping and one spectacular find do pay off, revealing that Cardiff's hillfort is as old and as important as anyone could have hoped.
#24 - Dungannon, Northern Ireland - Fort Of The Earls
Season 15 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/2/2008
The team visit Northern Ireland to locate one of the most important sites in Anglo-Irish history. A hilltop castle above the city of Dungannon, stronghold of the powerful O' Neill clan, was seized by English forces in 1602, setting off events that would cause unrest in the two countries for centuries to come, the same hill was a top secret British Army base for the last 50 years.
#25 - Litlington, Cambridgeshire - There's A Villa Here Somewhere
Season 17 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/31/2010
There's a Villa Here Somewhere: Litlington, Cambridgeshire. The quiet village of Litlington in Cambridgeshire gets the full Time Team treatment as Tony Robinson and the digging team hunt for the missing remains of what is believed to be one of Britain's biggest Roman villas. A mysterious Roman building hidden in a copse and a 19th-century map suggest the next door field contains a massive villa. But little archaeological work has been carried out since the 19th century so the Team's task is to find this missing structure and help the people of Litlington put their town back on the Roman map.