Time Team
Season 7 Episode 8 - The Royalists' Last Stand - Basing House, Hampshire
Basing House in Hampshire, owned by the Paulet family was once one of the largest private homes in Britain until besieged and destroyed in the English Civil War. Most of the ruins are a Protected Ancient Monument, but Time Team is permitted to dig on the edge of where the Basingstoke Canal once cut through the ruins, and they find evidence of the final assault in 1645. Meanwhile, in a field across the road, it appears that Charles Paulet built a hunting lodge around 1690, but the field is the site of centuries of building and tearing down, and the archaeology is so confusing three days are not enough to work everything out. The English Civil War Society come to re-enact the siege of Basing House, setting up camp in the Great Barn where the original besiegers camped. They show how musket and pistol balls were cast.
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
