Time Team
Season 11 Episode 8 - Rescuing a Mesolithic Foreshore - Goldcliff, Newport
When the tide recedes at this point on the Severn estuary, rare evidence of stone age activity is uncovered. Time Team are on a three-day mission to help recover some of these relics before they are washed away. It involves excavating and painstakingly examining 15 cubic metres of muddy silt; but time is against them. The Mesolithic period is poorly understood, because these people were highly mobile hunter-gatherers who did not build permanent structures. They uncover some of the smallest artefacts they have ever handled. Phil and Brigid are fascinated by ancient footprints of adults and children, preserved in the sand. Phil excavates the massive tooth of an aurochs, an extinct giant prey animal. They are joined by Martin Bell of Reading University, Mesolithic specialists Nick Barton and Robin Crompton, and food expert Jacqui Wilson who cooks up a stone age feast.
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
