Time Team: Season 16
Season 16 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 15.
- 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 16 Progress Shield
The Trouble with Temples - Friars Wash, Hertfordshire
Jan 4, 2009 · 50 min
Time Team has never found a Roman temple. But a 30-year-old photograph clearly shows double square cropmarks in a field. Surely this time they will strike lucky? The trouble is, th
The Wedding Present - Scargill Castle, County Durham
Jan 11, 2009 · 50 min
The Team pieces together the history and the layout of a very special wedding present – Scargill Castle, in the remote wilds of County Durham.
Heroes’ Hill - Knockdhu, County Antrim
Jan 18, 2009 · 50 min
Working with archaeologists from Queen's University in Belfast, the Team takes up the challenge to unlock the prehistoric secrets of the headland at Knockdhu, County Antrim.
Toga Town - Caerwent, South Wales
Jan 25, 2009 · 50 min
Caerwent is the best-preserved Roman town in Britain. Laid out on a grid pattern, it has 20 blocks within its walls, which still stand at heights of up to five metres in places. Pr
Blood, Sweat and Beers - Rise Hill, Cumbria
Feb 1, 2009 · 50 min
Time Team visits the Yorkshire Dales to investigate the Risehill camp settlement, inhabited by the Victorian railway navvies during the construction of the Settle-to-Carlisle railw
Buried Bishops and Belfries - Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire
Feb 8, 2009 · 50 min
Time Team gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dig in the hallowed grounds of Salisbury Cathedral – in Phil Harding's home town. In 2008, Salisbury marked the 750th anniversary
Anarchy in the UK - Radcot, Oxfordshire
Feb 15, 2009 · 50 min
The Team are in Radcot, Oxfordshire, where they hope to uncover a long-lost fortress built in the 12th century during one of the bloodiest episodes of English history. The tiny ha
Mystery of the Ice Cream Villa - Colworth, Bedfordshire
Feb 22, 2009 · 50 min
The Team are invited to investigate a Bedfordshire field by a group of amateur archaeologists who have found countless pieces of Roman pottery, coins and building material over the
Hermit Harbour - Looe, Cornwall
Mar 1, 2009 · 50 min
Legend has it that Jesus Christ himself played on the pebble beach at Looe Island (also known as St George's Island), about one mile off the south Cornwall coast near Looe. It is a
Called to the Bar - Lincoln’s Inn, London
Mar 8, 2009 · 50 min
The Team visits Lincoln's Inn, London where they have been asked to investigate the remains of a 13th-century palace that belonged to Henry III's Lord Chancellor. There were only a
Beacon on the Fens - Chapel Head, Cambridgeshire
Mar 15, 2009 · 50 min
Over the years, farmers working the fields have found large quantities of worked stone, medieval tiles and even two shelly limestone columns, adding credence to the local belief th
The Hollow Way - Ulnaby, County Durham
Mar 22, 2009 · 50 min
Time Team sets out to unearth the secrets of the deserted medieval village of Ulnaby in Durham. The challenge was to tell the story of a whole lost village – a once-thriving rural
Skeletons in the Shed - Blythburgh, Suffolk
Mar 29, 2009 · 50 min
Tony Robinson and the Team travel to the picturesque expanses of the Suffolk coast to investigate a very special back garden. When the new owners of a house in Blythburgh explored