Time Team
Season 19 Episode 4 - The First King of Racing - Newmarket, Suffolk
7.1 ?
1994
Documentary, Mystery
Tony and the Team visit Newmarket, the birthplace of horseracing, in search of the earliest archaeological traces of the sport of kings. They dig in the heart of the historic town, in search of the remains of King Charles II's racing stables - arguably the world's first stables dedicated to racing. Bone specialist Jackie McKinley talks about horse skeletons with Christopher Garibaldi at the National Horseracing Museum.
Episodes in Season 19
1
Dig by Wire - Gateholm Island, Pembrokeshire
50 min
2
A Village Affair - Bitterley, Shropshire
50 min
3
The Drowned Town - Dunwich, Suffolk
50 min
4
The First King of Racing - Newmarket, Suffolk
50 min
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Chapel of Secrets - Beadnell, Northumberland
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6
A Copper Bottomed Dig - Pentrechwyth, Swansea
50 min
7
The Only Earl Is Essex - Colne Priory, Essex
50 min
8
Secrets of the Dunes - Kenfig, Bridgend
50 min
9
Rome's Wild West - Caerleon, Newport
50 min
10
How to Lose a Castle - Crewkerne, Somerset
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11
King John's Lost Palace - Clipstone, Nottinghamshire
50 min
12
The Time Team Guide to Burial
50 min
13
Time Team's Greatest Discoveries
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