Time Team
Season 12 Episode 8 - Picts And Hermits: Cave Dwellers Of Fife - Wemyss, Fife
Wemyss Caves, on the shore of the Firth of Forth, have been a famous landmark for centuries. Legend has it that they were occupied by the mysterious Pictish people who scared the Romans into building Hadrian's Wall; that subsequently they were home to medieval Christian hermits and later to Jacobean nobles. Now the caves are under serious threat from erosion; the sea is already lapping at the cliff just below the cave line. But Wemyss Caves have never been properly investigated. How did the enigmatic Pictish carvings on the cave wall get there? And did Picts really live in the caves or were they just passing by? Is there any evidence of hermits or other types of medieval occupation? In an intensive three days, Time Team come up with some remarkable answers, beginning the task of re-writing the history of this atmospheric site.
Episodes in Season 12
The Manor That's Back to Front - Chenies Manor House, Buckinghamshire
50 min
The Monastery and the Mansion - Nether Poppleton, Yorkshire
50 min
The Bombers in the Marsh - Warton near Preston, Lancashire
50 min
Fighting On The Frontier - Drumlanrig, Dumfries and Galloway
50 min
A Neolithic Cathedral? - Northborough, Peterborough
50 min
In Search of Henry V's Flagship, Grace Dieu - Bursledon, Hampshire
50 min
Going Upmarket With The Romans - Standish, Gloucestershire
50 min
Picts And Hermits: Cave Dwellers Of Fife - Wemyss, Fife
50 min
Lost Centuries Of St Osyth - St Osyth, Essex
50 min
The Puzzle Of Picket's Farm - South Perrott, Dorset
50 min
Norman Neighbours - Skipsea, East Yorkshire
50 min
Tower Blocks And Togas - South Shields, Tyneside
50 min
Animal Farm - Hanslope, Milton Keynes
50 min
