Time Team: Season 18
Season 18 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 17.
- 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 18 Progress Shield
Reservoir Rituals - Tottiford Reservoir, Devon
Feb 6, 2011 · 50 min
Tony Robinson and his team celebrate their 200th dig. Jane Marchand from Dartmoor National Park Authority was alerted by a walker to standing stones peering out of an East Devon re
Saxon Death, Saxon Gold - West Langton, Leicestershire
Feb 13, 2011 · 50 min
The Team are intrigued by metal detecting finds and pottery scattered across some fields in Leicestershire, which suggest they're on the site of a high-status Anglo-Saxon burial gr
Romans on the Range - High Ham, Somerset
Feb 20, 2011 · 50 min
Tony and the Team get a unique opportunity to dig at an army firing range at High Ham in Somerset and investigate a series of mosaics first discovered 150 years ago. Everything ind
Hitler's Island Fortress - Les Gellettes, Jersey
Feb 27, 2011 · 50 min
Tony Robinson doesn't usually get to decide where the Team should dig, but in this episode he chooses his first ever site for investigation: a German anti-aircraft battery on Jerse
Furnace in the Forest - Derwentcote, County Durham
Mar 6, 2011 · 50 min
Dense and tranquil woodland in the County Durham countryside provides an unlikely venue for Time Team's investigation into the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution.
Under the Gravestones - Castor, Cambridgeshire
Mar 13, 2011 · 50 min
The Team face one of their strangest challenges ever: digging through a church graveyard in search of what could be one of the largest Roman structures ever built in Britain.
House of the White Queen - Groby, Leicestershire
Mar 20, 2011 · 50 min
Tony and the Team discover evidence of a dynasty that arrived with William the Conqueror and went on to produce two queens of England: Elizabeth I and Lady Jane Grey.
Cannons and Castles - Mont Orgueil, Jersey
Mar 27, 2011 · 50 min
Tony Robinson heads to Jersey to investigate the origins of Mont Orgueil Castle. Today's castle is a Tudor structure built on earlier foundations, and it's that early castle, built
Mystery of the Manor Moat - Llancaiach Fawr, South Wales
Apr 3, 2011 · 50 min
Investigating an archaeologist's dream. An ancient moat has been discovered and no one knows what it once protected. Was it an early Welsh chapel, a Roman fort, a fortified cattle
Buck Mill, Somerset - Search for the Domesday Mill
Apr 10, 2011 · 50 min
When Stephen and Stephanie Fry bought a few acres of prime Somerset pasture to graze their horses, they inadvertently also bought the remains of Buck Mill, an 18th-century water mi