Time Team: Season 13
Season 13 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 12.
- 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 13 Progress Shield
The Bodies in the Shed - Glendon, Northamptonshire
Jan 22, 2006 · 50 min
The Team is visiting Glendon Hall to unravel the mystery of the human skeletons found under an outbuilding. The team are joined by Richard Morriss (historic building consultant) an
Villas out of Molehills - Withington, Gloucestershire
Jan 29, 2006 · 50 min
When a colony of moles brings up pieces of mosaic floor in a Cotswold field, Tony Robinson and the team investigate whether the findings could be linked to a nearby Roman villa dis
Rubble at the Mill - Manchester
Feb 5, 2006 · 50 min
The team set to work uncovering Manchester's first cotton mill, built by one of the fathers of the Industrial Revolution, Richard Arkwright. Over three days the team uncover the re
The First Tudor Palace? - Esher, Surrey
Feb 12, 2006 · 50 min
The team visit Wayneflete Tower which is all that remains of a palace. Over three days they piece together the story of a site that evolved into one of the most stunning buildings
The Boat on the Rhine - A Roman Boat in Utrecht - Utrecht, The Netherlands
Feb 19, 2006 · 50 min
The team is invited by Dutch archaeologists to help rescue crucial evidence from a 35-metre-long barge that once sailed the Rhine. The team has one chance to investigate the boat b
Court of the Kentish King - Eastry, Kent
Feb 26, 2006 · 50 min
The team descends on the orchards of Kent to search for the lost Anglo-Saxon palace of Eastry, and discover two likely contenders. Over three days, they dig the longest trench in T
The Monks' Manor - Brimham, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Mar 5, 2006 · 50 min
The team travels to the Yorkshire Dales to meet Chris and Barbara Bradley on their farm to uncover the remains of a monastic grange - a medieval forerunner to the grand country hou
Castle in the Round - Queensborough, Kent
Mar 12, 2006 · 50 min
The team investigate the remains of Queenborough Castle on the Isle of Sheppey, built by Edward III for Queen Philippa during the Hundred Years' War. The Time Team excavate the cas
Sussex Ups and Downs - Blackpatch, near Worthing, Sussex
Mar 19, 2006 · 50 min
The team travels to what could be a Neolithic settlement in the Sussex Downs. Initially discovered by John Pull in 1923, the site is littered with remains of 6000-year-old flint mi
Birthplace of the Confessor - Islip, Oxfordshire
Mar 26, 2006 · 50 min
The team descends upon the sleepy Oxfordshire village of Islip, the birthplace of Edward the Confessor, for one of the most challenging and intriguing excavations of the series. Th
Early Bath - Ffrith, Flintshire
Apr 2, 2006 · 50 min
The team descend on the village of Ffrith in North Wales to discover if it is built on the remains of a Roman mining town. The main street runs along the route of Offa's Dyke. The
The Taxman's Tavern - Alfoldean, Horsham, Sussex
Apr 9, 2006 · 50 min
Time Team travel to Alfoldean in West Sussex to uncover a Roman mansio or stopping-place, and hence the story of the whole settlement. The dig takes place in ploughed fields on bot
Scotch Broch - Applecross near Skye, Scottish Highlands
Apr 16, 2006 · 50 min
Tony and the team journey to Applecross in the north west of Scotland to excavate a broch, a monumental dry-stone tower that was one of the largest Iron Age structures in Britain.