Time Team
Season 17 Episode 5 - The Massacre in the Cellar - Hopton Castle, Shropshire
Tony Robinson and the Team visit the remains of Hopton Castle in Shropshire. Although it's picturesque, it was the site of a series of gruesome battles that took place at height of the English Civil War, when a Royalist force laid siege to a small garrison of Parliamentarians inside the castle. The Team use contemporary accounts and the evidence from their own trenches to separate fact from propaganda and piece together a blow-by-blow account of these violent days in 1644. The dig immediately produces evidence of battle. Over three days the archaeology begins to build up a compelling story of how the defenders fought off two attacks, killing hundreds of Royalists, before finally succumbing to the greater numbers of their enemy.
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
