Time Team
Season 10 Episode 8 - Back to Our Roots - Athelney, Somerset
Time Team revisits Athelney Abbey, the hideaway of Alfred the Great, and also the very first site investigated by the team one hundred programs earlier. Ten years of technological advances in the meantime has significantly enhanced their geophysical survey methods and changes in heritage management attitudes have also given them the permission to dig at the site. Slag and magnetic readings suggest that iron and steel was smelted and worked at Athelney, the latter being a good indication of Anglo-Saxon presence. At the abbey site itself Phil and his diggers uncover several burials. Reenactors show Anglo-Saxon dress and weaponry and their Viking counterparts as the experimental part of the program, while Carenza and Tony make – and burn – traditional Saxon cakes. The archaeologists find a number of objects, a Medieval graveyard associated with Athelney abbey, a metalworking complex, and a substantial defensive ditch dug in the Iron Age, but reused in the time of king Alfred.
Episodes in Season 10
Garden Secrets - Raunds, Northamptonshire
50 min
Mosaics, Mosaics, Mosaics - Dinnington, Somerset
50 min
Peak District Practices - Carsington, Derbyshire
50 min
The Giant's Grave - Fetlar, Shetland
50 min
Joust Dig It - Greenwich, London
50 min
Digging Liberty - Merton, London
50 min
Death in a Crescent - Bath, Somerset
50 min
Back to Our Roots - Athelney, Somerset
50 min
Looking for the White House - Kew Gardens, London
50 min
Rescuing the Dead - Leven, Fife
50 min
Not a Blot on the Landscape - Castle Howard, Yorkshire
50 min
A View to a Kiln - Sedgefield, County Durham
50 min
Jailhouse Rocks - Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria
50 min
