Time Team
Season 8 Episode 2 - The Man Who Bought a Castle - Alderton, Northamptonshire
Derek Batten bought a plot of land advertised as a castle and moat; but there is little sign of a castle other than a tree-covered mound surrounded by a huge ditch. So he has asked Time Team to sort it out. Because the site is a scheduled ancient monument, the team have to get permission from English Heritage for strictly limited excavations. To complicate matters further, Tony has to adjudicate on a long-running boundary dispute. The team is joined by castles expert Philip Dixon. Phil Harding gets kitted-out in chainmail as a Saxon footsoldier, facing a mounted Norman warrior on a Spanish stallion. The site is finally identified as a ringwork castle, built on a previous Saxon structure around the time of the Norman Conquest.
Episodes in Season 8
An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Normanton, Lincolnshire
49 min
The Man Who Bought a Castle - Alderton, Northamptonshire
49 min
The Celtic Spring - Llygadwy, Powys
50 min
A Waltham Villa - Waltham Field, Whittington, Gloucestershire
50 min
The Lost Viaduct - Blaenavon, Torfaen
50 min
A Palace Sold for Scrap - Rycote, Thame, Oxfordshire
50 min
An Iron-Age Roundhouse - Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
49 min
The Bone Caves - Alveston, Gloucestershire
49 min
The Inter-City Villa - Basildon, Berkshire
49 min
Holy Island - Lindisfarne, Northumberland
49 min
The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth - Bridgnorth, Shropshire
49 min
Three Tales of Canterbury - Canterbury, Kent
49 min
The Leper Hospital - Winchester, Hampshire
49 min
