Time Team: Season 17
Season 17 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 16.
- 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 17 Progress Shield
Corridors of Power - Westminster Abbey, London
Apr 18, 2010 · 50 min
In the first episode of the new series, Tony Robinson, Professor Mick Aston and the Team investigate one of Britain's greatest historic landmarks: Westminster Abbey. Surrounded by
A Saintly Site - Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides
Apr 25, 2010 · 50 min
Time Team descend on the Isle of Mull at the invitation of two local amateur archaeologists to investigate a mysterious set of earthworks in a forest near Tobermory. Could they be
Bridge over the River Tees - Piercebridge, County Durham
May 2, 2010 · 50 min
Tony Robinson and the Team get their feet wet as they examine a stretch of the River Tees where local divers have discovered more than 2,000 high-quality Roman finds. The river flo
In the Halls of a Saxon King - Drayton, Oxfordshire
May 9, 2010 · 50 min
In Sutton Courtenay Tony Robinson and the Team investigate a set of buildings once occupied by Anglo Saxon royalty. It's the rarest of archaeological sites and uncovers the biggest
The Massacre in the Cellar - Hopton Castle, Shropshire
May 16, 2010 · 50 min
Tony Robinson and the Team visit the remains of Hopton Castle in Shropshire. Although it's picturesque, it was the site of a series of gruesome battles that took place at height of
Potted History - Mildenhall, Wiltshire
May 23, 2010 · 50 min
Time Team visits the heart of Wiltshire for one of their most ambitious projects ever: to investigate an entire lost Roman town. Hidden under acres of wheat, Cunetio would once hav
Death and Dominoes: The First POW Camp - Norman Cross, Cambridgeshire
Oct 3, 2010 · 50 min
The Team visit Norman Cross in Cambridgeshire, a site that is over 200 years old and housed the world's first ever purpose-built prisoner of war camp. It has never before been exca
Something for the Weekend - Tregruk Castle, Llangybi, Monmouthshire
Oct 10, 2010 · 50 min
Tony Robinson and the Team find themselves lost in the mists of a Welsh forest as they investigate one of the biggest castles in Britain. Their task is to investigate the castle's
Governor's Green - Governor's Green, Portsmouth
Oct 17, 2010 · 50 min
The Team visit Portsmouth to try and uncover one of the city's oldest buildings - a medieval hospital. But after three days of bone-chilling weather and confusing archaeology can t
Priory Engagement - Burford, Oxfordshire
Oct 24, 2010 · 50 min
The Team descend upon the Oxfordshire town of Burford to respond to very special challenge - from Time Team's own Professor Mick Aston. They have just three days to uncover a medie
There's a Villa Here Somewhere - Litlington, Cambridgeshire
Oct 31, 2010 · 50 min
But has 18th-century quarrying destroyed all meaningful evidence? Ben Robinson supervises this dig in the absence of Mick Aston. The end results are shown to the appreciative villa
Commanding Heights - Dinmore Hill, Herefordshire
Nov 7, 2010 · 50 min
Tony and the Time Team climb a remote Herefordshire hill to investigate one of the biggest prehistoric sites ever featured. Was Dinmore Hill the site of a vast Iron Age hill fort?
Rooting for the Romans - Bedford Purlieus Wood, Cambridgeshire
Apr 17, 2011 · 50 min
An eagle-eyed forest ranger spotted bits of Roman building poking out from the forest floor in Cambridgeshire's Bedford Purlieus Wood.