Time Team
Season 11 Episode 10 - King Cnut's Manor - Nassington, Northamptonshire
Digging up fields and car parks and back gardens is all very well, but how could Time Team pass up a chance to dig up a living room? The manor house in Nassington was purchased in a derelict state, and while restoring it, several massive post holes were investigated that are of a size and spacing to be a Saxon great hall. The pottery finds from the property suggest almost constant occupation from the Iron Age to the present, and the Ramsey Chronicle records that Cnut owned Nassington while king. Up comes the flooring so three trenches can be dug inside the house, while outside, various trenches are dug in the garden. It seems that hall after hall was built where the manor house still stands, but no trace can any longer be found of outbuildings which must have been there. Graeme Lawson visits with a selection of Dark Ages musical instruments, makes a reed pipe of elder wood, and plays out the episode with the Time Team theme music on pipe and lyre.
Episodes in Season 11
In Search of the Brigittine Abbey - Syon House, London
50 min
A Roman Bath House and Edwardian Folly - Whitestaunton Manor, Somerset
50 min
The Crannog in the Loch - Loch Migdale, Scottish Highlands
50 min
Saxon Burials on the Ridge - South Carlton, Lincolnshire
50 min
The Roman Fort That Wasn't There - Syndale, Kent
50 min
An Iron-Age Trading Centre - Green Island, Dorset
50 min
A Medieval Blast Furnace - The Old Furnace, Oakamoor, Staffordshire
50 min
Rescuing a Mesolithic Foreshore - Goldcliff, Newport
50 min
Fertile Soils, Rich Archaeology - Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire
50 min
King Cnut's Manor - Nassington, Northamptonshire
50 min
Back-Garden Archaeology: Revisiting a Roman Villa - Ipswich, Suffolk
50 min
The Lost City of Roxburgh - Roxburgh, Scottish Borders
50 min
Brimming with Remains - Cranborne Chase, Dorset
50 min
