Time Team
Season 8 Episode 6 - A Palace Sold for Scrap - Rycote, Thame, Oxfordshire
The owners of Rycote House live in a lovely converted stable block, but they believe that the extremely grand house that once stood on the property and which hosted Tudor royalty burned down in 1745, and they want Time Team to investigate. In the trenches, no evidence of burning is found, but it seems that grand houses were built and rebuilt on the site from the 14th century through the Georgian era. Finds include a drainage tunnel dating from Capability Brown's landscaping work on the property. Historian Robin Bush returns from the Bodelian Library with an extraordinary catalogue from 1807, which details the sale of the grand house room by room. In nearby Thane, a townhouse contains a fireplace and doorways that possibly come from the sale. Food Historian Ivan Day cooks and serves sweetmeats and hippocras. Palace expert Simon Thurley joins the Team.
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
