Time Team
Season 8 Episode 9 - The Inter-City Villa - Basildon, Berkshire
While laying Brunel's Great Western Railway line 50 miles from London, navvies discovered mosaic floors indicating a Roman villa. The mosaics were broken up and the whole site ignored, until recent photographs of cropmarks showed the outline of the villa, among other features. Geophysics signals are also very strong. The trouble is, the diggers can find no structure beneath the surface. They are joined by Bernard Thomason from English Heritage, mosaics expert David Neal, Tim Allen of Oxford Archaeological Unit, and Jillian Greenaway from Reading Museum. Reconstructor Chris Owen supervises the recreation of a mosaic using thousands of tesserae.
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
