Time Team: Season 12
Season 12 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 11.
- 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 12 Progress Shield
The Manor That's Back to Front - Chenies Manor House, Buckinghamshire
Jan 2, 2005 · 50 min
Tony Robinson and the team visit Chenies Manor which is believed to have been upgraded in time for Henry VIII's visit around 1530. However, while a late 16th-century inventory sugg
The Monastery and the Mansion - Nether Poppleton, Yorkshire
Jan 9, 2005 · 50 min
The villagers of Nether Poppleton, near York, join Tony Robinson and the team for some extensive digging as they try to determine the exact age of their village. The current layout
The Bombers in the Marsh - Warton near Preston, Lancashire
Jan 16, 2005 · 50 min
On 29 November 1944, two US Douglas A-26 Invader bombers crashed in Warton Marsh. Both planes, along with a number of others, had left Warton Airbase in formation, en route to join
Fighting On The Frontier - Drumlanrig, Dumfries and Galloway
Jan 23, 2005 · 50 min
Twenty years ago, during a particularly dry summer, parch marks revealed what seemed to be a huge Roman fort a few hundred metres from the Duke of Buccleuch's extraordinarily grand
A Neolithic Cathedral? - Northborough, Peterborough
Jan 30, 2005 · 50 min
The Time Team is invited to a huge circular crop mark near Peterborough, referred to as a causewayed enclosure by archaeologists. Huge ditches mark the area, which date the site at
In Search of Henry V's Flagship, Grace Dieu - Bursledon, Hampshire
Feb 6, 2005 · 50 min
The team have three days to explore the skeleton of a medieval warship found on the bed of the River Hamble near Southampton. They must prove whether it is the Grace Dieu, Henry V'
Going Upmarket With The Romans - Standish, Gloucestershire
Feb 13, 2005 · 50 min
For years, a field near Standish in Gloucestershire has yielded Roman brooches, mosaic tiles and coins. The finds point to a sizeable villa somewhere nearby - but so far none has b
Picts And Hermits: Cave Dwellers Of Fife - Wemyss, Fife
Feb 20, 2005 · 50 min
Wemyss Caves, on the shore of the Firth of Forth, have been a famous landmark for centuries. Legend has it that they were occupied by the mysterious Pictish people who scared the R
Lost Centuries Of St Osyth - St Osyth, Essex
Feb 27, 2005 · 50 min
7th century Vikings sailed up an Essex creek. Legends tells hold they captured a nun who was offered her modesty or her mortality, chose death. The nun carried her severed head up
The Puzzle Of Picket's Farm - South Perrott, Dorset
Mar 6, 2005 · 50 min
Time Team heads to South Perrott in Dorset, inspired by the intriguing discovery of Roman brooches and coins in a hilltop field. The Team are pretty sure they're going to uncover a
Norman Neighbours - Skipsea, East Yorkshire
Mar 1, 2005 · 50 min
For years Time Team fan Frances Davies has been collecting finds from the field outside her back door in Skipsea in East Yorkshire. She has uncovered Neolithic, Roman and Saxon ite
Tower Blocks And Togas - South Shields, Tyneside
Mar 20, 2005 · 50 min
In South Shields, the Roman Fort at the end of Hadrian's Wall is a local landmark and the team embark on a quest to locate the site of a huge Roman military cemetery thought to be
Animal Farm - Hanslope, Milton Keynes
Apr 3, 2005 · 50 min
An unusual horse bit, some posh finds and carved stonework lead Time Team on a search for a Norman hunting lodge in Northamptonshire. But it isn't long before the lodge's massive s