Time Team: Season 20
Season 20 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 19.
- 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 20 Progress Shield
The Forgotten Gunners of WWI - Grantham, Lincolnshire
Nov 11, 2012 · 50 min
Golfers at a popular East Midlands golf club now know that a huge wooded bank beside their fairway is a rather special area of 'rough', an old machine gun firing range.
Brancaster - Brancaster, Norfolk
Jan 6, 2014 · 50 min
Featuring the Team's largest ever range and number of items from Roman Britain and their most ambitious geophysics project to date.
A Capital Hill - Ely, Cardiff
Jan 13, 2014 · 50 min
Time Team investigate a huge hill near Cardiff that may be immensely significant; was it the Iron Age capital of South Wales? Tony and the Team have just three days to answer some
Henham's Lost Mansions - Henham Park, Suffolk
Jan 20, 2014 · 50 min
Tony and the team attempt to help Hektor Rous, the son of 'Aussie Earl' Keith Rous, work out the mysterious history of the family's Tudor country home in Suffolk.
Warriors - Figheldean, Wiltshire
Jan 27, 2013 · 50 min
Tony and the team work with veterans of the war in Afghanistan, investigating the ancient Barrow Clump on Salisbury Plain, where they discover burials from 2000BC and rare Saxon fi
Lost Mines of Lakeland - Coniston, Cumbria
Feb 3, 2013 · 50 min
Tony and the team make their way to the Lake District on an expedition that takes them both higher and deeper than they've ever been before. They are looking for a forgotten piece
Horseshoe Hall - Oakham Castle, Rutland
Feb 10, 2013 · 50 min
Oakham Castle is the best preserved 12th-century building in Britain, but there's much more to it than meets the eye.
Mystery of the Thames-side Villa - Dropshort, Oxfordshire
Feb 17, 2013 · 50 min
Roman remains have been turning up in an Oxfordshire field for decades, where a student in the 1960s believed he had uncovered a Roman mosaic.
The Lost Castle of Dundrum - Dundrum Castle, County Down
Feb 24, 2013 · 50 min
Tony and the Team search for the remains of a renegade knight's Norman castle in one of Northern Ireland's most picturesque spots.
Wolsey's Lost Palace - The More, Moor Park, Hertfordshire
Mar 3, 2013 · 50 min
In the 1950s a group of schoolboys found the remains of Britain's most opulent palace under their playing field. Now Tony and the Team try to piece together this massive Tudor puzz
An Englishman's Castle - Upton Castle, Cosheston, Pembrokeshire
Mar 10, 2013 · 50 min
When Steve and Pru bought pretty Upton Castle in Pembrokeshire they weren't sure if it was a Victorian folly or an Anglo-Norman castle, built to defend 'Little England beyond Wales
The Time Team Guide to Experimental Archaeology
Mar 17, 2013 · 50 min
Tony Robinson celebrates the 150 experiments and re-creations Time Team has conducted over 20 years, from Stone Age swords like Excalibur, to building an entire Iron Age house.
Twenty Years of Time Team
Mar 24, 2013 · 50 min
Tony takes a look back at the best bits from two decades and over 250 episodes.
Britain's Stone Age Tsunami
May 30, 2013 · 50 min
Tony Robinson reveals astonishing new evidence that shows how, 8000 years ago, a huge tsunami swamped the east coast of Britain.
The Secret of Lincoln Jail
Jul 30, 2013 · 50 min
Lincoln has been dominated by its castle for over 1000 years. Its high stone walls and gatehouses were built to impress the locals with Norman power, and it has housed medieval dun