Time Team
Season 17 Episode 4 - In the Halls of a Saxon King - Drayton, Oxfordshire
In Sutton Courtenay Tony Robinson and the Team investigate a set of buildings once occupied by Anglo Saxon royalty. It's the rarest of archaeological sites and uncovers the biggest Saxon building ever discovered in Britain. Aerial photography of an apparently featureless Oxfordshire field revealed crop marks that suggested to archaeologists it was once the site of an impressive collection of 1,400-year-old buildings; but Time Team's digging expertise was needed to verify this. The trenches are big and the archaeology complicated but slowly the Team begin to build up a picture of life here over 1,000 years ago, with the help of heroic Saxon poetry. As well as stunning finds and the perplexing possibility that they have uncovered an Anglo Saxon totem pole, the archaeologists also discover a culture where heroism, story telling and drinking go hand in hand, and learn the finer points of how to insult your colleagues in Old English.
Episodes in Season 17
Corridors of Power - Westminster Abbey, London
50 min
A Saintly Site - Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides
50 min
Bridge over the River Tees - Piercebridge, County Durham
50 min
In the Halls of a Saxon King - Drayton, Oxfordshire
50 min
The Massacre in the Cellar - Hopton Castle, Shropshire
50 min
Potted History - Mildenhall, Wiltshire
50 min
Death and Dominoes: The First POW Camp - Norman Cross, Cambridgeshire
50 min
Something for the Weekend - Tregruk Castle, Llangybi, Monmouthshire
50 min
Governor's Green - Governor's Green, Portsmouth
50 min
Priory Engagement - Burford, Oxfordshire
50 min
There's a Villa Here Somewhere - Litlington, Cambridgeshire
50 min
Commanding Heights - Dinmore Hill, Herefordshire
50 min
Rooting for the Romans - Bedford Purlieus Wood, Cambridgeshire
50 min
