Time Team
Season 15 Episode 11 - Five Thousand Tons of Stone - Hamsterley, County Durham
7.1 ?
1994
Documentary, Mystery
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.
Episodes in Season 15
1
Gold in the Moat - Codnor Castle, Derbyshire
50 min
2
Street of the Dead - Binchester, County Durham
50 min
3
Bodies in the Dunes - Barra, Western Isles
50 min
4
The Naughty Nuns of Northampton - Towcester, Northamptonshire
50 min
5
Mysteries of the Mosaic - Coberley, Gloucestershire
50 min
6
Blitzkreig on Shooter’s Hill - South London
50 min
7
Keeping Up with the Georgians - Hunstrete, Somerset
50 min
8
Saxons on the Edge - Stonton Wyville, Leicestershire
50 min
9
Fort of the Earls - Dungannon, Northern Ireland
50 min
10
From Constantinople To Cornwall - Padstow, North Cornwall
50 min
11
Five Thousand Tons of Stone - Hamsterley, County Durham
50 min
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