Time Team
Season 7 Episode 2 - The Mosaic at the Bottom of the Garden - Cirencester, Gloucestershire
In 300 A.D. Corinium Dobunnorum was England's wealthiest city next to Londinium. Now it's the pleasant Gloucestershire town of Cirencester, and Time Team are visiting the leafy suburban Chester Street, where they hope the back gardens will yield clues about the bustling Roman city and its main highway, Ermine Street. Could a Roman temple have occupied this site - or even rarer, an early Christian church? They need to knock on a few doors to ask about digging up their plots. There is a bottle of champagne for anybody who can find a tessellated pavement. They are joined by Roman architectural historian Tom Blagg, coin expert Richard Reece and mosaic expert David Neal. The Ermine Street Guard offer Tony venison stew, and use a wooden crane to erect a stone column, fashioned by mason Giles MacDonald. In the public presentation, Stewart outlines a picture of the whole city, ably assisted by Victor's drawing. Among many Roman finds are coins, a brooch, a spoon and a bone die.
Episodes in Season 7
A Muslim Port In Spain - Denia, Spain
50 min
The Mosaic at the Bottom of the Garden - Cirencester, Gloucestershire
50 min
One of the First Spitfires Lost in France - Wierre-Effroy, France
50 min
An Iron-Age Roundhouse and a Henge - Waddon, Dorset
50 min
Hadrian's Wall - Birdoswald, Cumbria
50 min
In Search of the Earliest Traces of Mankind - Elveden, Suffolk
50 min
The Missing Cathedral and the Diabetic Prior - Coventry, West Midlands
50 min
The Royalists' Last Stand - Basing House, Hampshire
50 min
A Bronze-Age Barrow and Walkway - Flag Fenn, Cambridgeshire
50 min
In Search of the Palace of King Offa - Sutton, Hereford
50 min
A Roman Temple in Sight of the Millennium Dome - Greenwich Park, London
50 min
Nuns in Northumbria - Hartlepool, County Durham
50 min
The Roman Fortress of Eboracum - York, Yorkshire
50 min
