Time Team: Season 19
Season 19 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 18.
- 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 19 Progress Shield
Dig by Wire - Gateholm Island, Pembrokeshire
Jan 22, 2012 · 50 min
Tony Robinson and the team visit a tiny windswept island off the coast of Wales. The only way to get to it is by rigging a 500-metre zip wire way above the wave-lashed rocks.
A Village Affair - Bitterley, Shropshire
Jan 29, 2012 · 50 min
There's a problem in the chocolate-box village of Bitterley in Shropshire. The village's school and cottages cluster prettily around the green. But the village church and the manor
The Drowned Town - Dunwich, Suffolk
Feb 5, 2012 · 50 min
Tony Robinson and the Team head to Dunwich, a village that's literally falling off the edge of the UK. Coastal erosion has eaten away most of this once-bustling settlement, and bef
The First King of Racing - Newmarket, Suffolk
Feb 12, 2012 · 50 min
Tony and the Team visit Newmarket, the birthplace of horseracing, in search of the earliest archaeological traces of the sport of kings. They dig in the heart of the historic town,
Chapel of Secrets - Beadnell, Northumberland
Feb 19, 2012 · 50 min
Tony leads the Team to the village of Beadnell on a beautiful stretch of the Northumbrian coast, to explore an unusual promontory, from which mysterious fragments of human bone hav
A Copper Bottomed Dig - Pentrechwyth, Swansea
Feb 26, 2012 · 50 min
Two hundred years ago, Swansea was one of the wealthiest cities in the country, if not the world. The source of those riches was neither the coal nor the steel recently associated
The Only Earl Is Essex - Colne Priory, Essex
Mar 4, 2012 · 50 min
Tony and the team rip up the pristine lawns of Paul Whight's stately home in search of the secrets of its illustrious former owners: the De Veres, who built a priory here in the 12
Secrets of the Dunes - Kenfig, Bridgend
Mar 18, 2012 · 50 min
Eight hundred years ago the people of Kenfig on the south coast of Wales thought they had built the perfect town, nestled round a harbour with easy access to the sea and a sheltere
Rome's Wild West - Caerleon, Newport
Mar 25, 2012 · 50 min
The Roman legionary fort of Caerleon in South Wales is one of the most famous and best preserved Roman sites in Britain. But just outside the fort, archaeologists have discovered s
How to Lose a Castle - Crewkerne, Somerset
Apr 1, 2012 · 50 min
For generations a family of Somerset farmers have been wondering if there was ever actually a castle on top of the hill they call Castle Hill. A medieval charter refers to a Norman
King John's Lost Palace - Clipstone, Nottinghamshire
Apr 8, 2012 · 50 min
Tony and the Team don their hunting green, pick up their bows and arrows and head for the fringes of Sherwood Forest, where residents of Clipstone village in Nottinghamshire believ
The Time Team Guide to Burial
Apr 29, 2012 · 50 min
Tony Robinson investigates how burial customs have changed and evolved over thousands of years of British history.
Time Team's Greatest Discoveries
May 13, 2012 · 50 min
Revisiting digs that produced rare and fine jewellery, gold coins, huge and intricate mosaics - and some extraordinary archaeological fakery - Mick Aston, Phil Harding and Helen Ge