Time Team
Season 6 Episode 12 - Montravers Estate (Part 1) - Nevis, West Indies
Invited by historian David Small, the team are on the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis, for a six-day dig to uncover the history of sugar production and slavery here. They are investigating a particular plantation, Montravers Estate, now overgrown, originally owned by wealthy 18th century Bristolean John Prater Pinney. Robin visits Bristol University, researching the extensive documentation. Back on Nevis, pottery expert David Barker is shown pottery sherds, most of which he dates to the 1840s. Phil crosses to neighbouring St. Kitts, to help make sugar from sugar cane. Sugar would have been extracted in a mill operated by teams of oxen. Molasses, the byproduct of sugar processing, was fermented to make rum. In the jungle Stewart searches for a slave village. They are also joined by local historian David Rollinson.
Episodes in Season 6
Wedgwood's First Factory - Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent
50 min
Back Garden Roman Finds - Papcastle, Cumbria
50 min
Dominican Friary Church and Norman Cathedral - Thetford, Norfolk
50 min
Cooper's Hole - Cheddar Gorge, Somerset
50 min
Medieval Plympton - Plympton, Devon
50 min
Tudor Dockyard - Smallhythe, Kent
50 min
Golf Course Roman Bathhouse - Beauport Park, Sussex
50 min
Bombers In Reedham Marshes - Reedham, Norfolk
50 min
Back To Turkdean - Turkdean, Gloucestershire
50 min
Field Cropmarks - Kemerton, Worcestershire
50 min
Ruined Norman Church - Bawsey, Norfolk
50 min
Montravers Estate (Part 1) - Nevis, West Indies
50 min
Montravers Estate (Part 2) - Nevis, West Indies
50 min
