Time Team
Season 9 Episode 13 - Seven Buckets and a Buckle - Breamore, Hampshire
A Byzantine brass bucket was found during a 3-day live dig in a Saxon cemetery a year ago. Time Team returns to find out more about the people who lived and died here. Metal detectorists are called in to find non-ferrous metals, to complement Geophysics' magnetometer survey. They are joined by Anglo-Saxon specialist Andrew Reynolds, paleopathologist Alice Roberts and celebrity Sandi Toksvig. Sandi's ancestors were from Jutland, and Robin Bush argues that this whole area of Hampshire was actually occupied by Jutes before they were defeated by the Saxons under King Cadwalla in 686 AD. Ray Walton replicates a brass bucket, complete with inscriptions and silvering, from scratch. Osteoarchaeologist Margaret Cox tries to make sense of the burials including rare double burials – one of which uniquely has a child placed between two men. Finds include weapons and an exquisite enamelled belt buckle; and three more of the mysterious buckets, which all fit one inside the other.
Episodes in Season 9
London's First Bridge - Vauxhall, London
50 min
The Roman's Panic - Ancaster, Lincolnshire
50 min
Diving for the Armada - Kinlochbervie, Sutherland
50 min
The Naughty Monastery - Chicksands, Bedfordshire
50 min
The Furnace in the Cellar - Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire
50 min
An Ermine Street Pub - Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
50 min
Iron-Age Market - Helford, Cornwall
50 min
Siege House in Shropshire - High Ercall, Shropshire
50 min
A Prehistoric Airfield - Throckmorton, Worcestershire
50 min
A Lost Roman City - Castleford, Yorkshire
50 min
Every Castle Needs a Lord - Beaudesert, Warwickshire
50 min
Steptoe Et Filius - Yaverland, Isle of Wight
50 min
Seven Buckets and a Buckle - Breamore, Hampshire
50 min
