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Time Team: Season 3

6 episodes Premiered Jan 7, 1996 Updated Sep 30, 2026

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Season 3 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 2.
⚡ 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.

Season 3 Episodes

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes

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S3·E1 Mytharc

Prehistoric Fogou - Boleigh and Treveneague, Cornwall

Jan 7, 1996 · 50 min

Recorded between 17 and 19 March 1995, the team try to discover what a 2000-year-old underground chamber (fogou) beneath Jo May's garden was used for. Dowser Hamish Miller shows th

S3·E2 Core

Hunting for Mammoth - Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire

Jan 14, 1996 · 50 min

Recorded between 21 and 23 April 1995, in this episode the team go to a gravel pit that is soon to become landfill, where they attempt to unearth 200,000-year-old remains of mammot

S3·E3 Core

Village of the Templars - Templecombe, Somerset

Jan 21, 1996 · 50 min

Recorded between 26 and 28 May 1995. A 13th century picture of Christ, strikingly similar to that on the Turin Shroud, has turned up. It's believed to belong to the Knights Templar

S3·E4 Core

A Wreck of the Spanish Armada - Teignmouth, Devon

Jan 28, 1996 · 50 min

Recorded between 30 June and 2 July 1995. 20 years ago a teenage boy discovered a 400-year-old bronze cannon in water close to the south Devon coast. Nobody has yet identified the

S3·E5 Mytharc

Palace of the Irish Kings - Emain Macha (aka Navan Fort), County Armagh

Feb 4, 1996 · 50 min

Recorded between 7 and 9 April 1995, the team are at Emain Macha (aka Navan Fort), County Armagh, where according to Celtic legends three palaces were built. The evidence of two ha

S3·E6 Mytharc

Treasures of the Roman Field - Lavenham, Suffolk

Feb 11, 1996 · 50 min

Recorded between 28 and 30 August 1995. The team arrive in a large square field about 20 miles from Colchester. This is an area typically rich in Roman activity. Several remains ha