Time Team: Season 11
Season 11 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Time Team Season 10.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 11 Progress Shield
In Search of the Brigittine Abbey - Syon House, London
Jan 4, 2004 · 50 min
The team are on the trail of a medieval mystery. Founded by Henry V and built by his son Henry VI, Syon Abbey was a large, wealthy monastery for nuns of an obscure Swedish order. D
A Roman Bath House and Edwardian Folly - Whitestaunton Manor, Somerset
Jan 11, 2004 · 50 min
Next to the beautifully manicured lawns of Whitestaunton Manor in the Blackdown Hills of Somerset lies a patch of muddy weeds. Coins and pottery have been found here, and it is sup
The Crannog in the Loch - Loch Migdale, Scottish Highlands
Jan 18, 2004 · 50 min
There's an island-ish round area of stones in Loch Migdale - could it be a crannog? 200 meters away on the banks is a small (12 m diameter) circular feature - is it a henge? Time T
Saxon Burials on the Ridge - South Carlton, Lincolnshire
Jan 25, 2004 · 50 min
The team investigate a possible fifth century cemetery in a ploughed field, where they find a metal shield boss. One male skeleton is holding a drinking vessel. There are hints of
The Roman Fort That Wasn't There - Syndale, Kent
Feb 1, 2004 · 50 min
Nobody knows what happened immediately after the Romans arrived in 43 AD, because no Roman fort has been discovered in this part of South East England. Time Team are on a mission t
An Iron-Age Trading Centre - Green Island, Dorset
Feb 8, 2004 · 50 min
Green Island in Poole Harbour has already shown that it was a significant centre of Iron Age activity, with evidence of industrial activity and trading to and from the continental
A Medieval Blast Furnace - The Old Furnace, Oakamoor, Staffordshire
Feb 15, 2004 · 50 min
The team are revisiting the garden of Furnace Cottage in Churnet Valley, where the previous excavation of an Elizabethan blast furnace produced evidence of much earlier iron-making
Rescuing a Mesolithic Foreshore - Goldcliff, Newport
Feb 22, 2004 · 50 min
When the tide recedes at this point on the Severn estuary, rare evidence of stone age activity is uncovered. Time Team are on a three-day mission to help recover some of these reli
Fertile Soils, Rich Archaeology - Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire
Feb 29, 2004 · 50 min
The British landscape is littered with Iron Age hill forts. A local archaeology unit is digging such a hill fort in Oxfordshire, but cannot afford to investigate a neighbouring lar
King Cnut's Manor - Nassington, Northamptonshire
Mar 7, 2004 · 50 min
Digging up fields and car parks and back gardens is all very well, but how could Time Team pass up a chance to dig up a living room? The manor house in Nassington was purchased in
Back-Garden Archaeology: Revisiting a Roman Villa - Ipswich, Suffolk
Mar 14, 2004 · 50 min
As renowned Suffolk archaeologist Basil Brown discovered, Castle Hill near Ipswich is named, not after a castle, but a substantial Roman villa. Brown was unable to complete his exc
The Lost City of Roxburgh - Roxburgh, Scottish Borders
Mar 21, 2004 · 50 min
Tony and the team search for the remains of Roxburgh, one of medieval Scotland's four great centres, but which has vanished beneath the pasture surrounding the ruins of Roxburgh Ca
Brimming with Remains - Cranborne Chase, Dorset
Mar 28, 2004 · 50 min
Pigs rooting in a windswept field in Dorset unearthed fragments including Roman mosaic floor tiles. In addition, a Bournemouth University excavation team located some burials nearb