Time Team: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
Maryland, USA - St. Mary's City, Maryland, USA
Jan 5, 1997 · 50 min
Recorded between 17 and 19 May 1996, the team go to St. Mary's City in Maryland to work with American archaeologists to look for evidence of the city founded by English colonists i
Mystery of the Cornish Skeletons - Launceston, Cornwall
Jan 12, 1997 · 50 min
Filmed between 22 and 24 March 1996. A local landowner has discovered human bones while installing water pipes. It is known to be the site of a former leper hospital, and a major c
Steam-Powered Mint - Soho, Birmingham
Jan 19, 1997 · 50 min
Recorded between 5 and 7 April 1996, this episode sees the team try to discover what remains of Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory, an important factory and home to the world's fir
8th Century Church - Govan, Glasgow
Jan 26, 1997 · 50 min
Filmed from 14 to 16 June 1996, in this episode the team try to find out why the graveyard of a 19th century church features large tortoise-shaped gravestones dating back to the Da
Norman and Medieval Castles - Malton, North Yorkshire
Feb 2, 1997 · 50 min
Recorded between 5 and 7 July 1996, the team try to discover a medieval castle and a Jacobean mansion. Barry Scott (bladesmith) makes a sword using traditional techniques, and the
Roman Villa - Netheravon, Wiltshire
Feb 9, 1997 · 50 min
Filmed from 2 to 4 August 1996, this episode looks for a Roman villa that was first partially discovered 90 years before by William Hawley. Part of the site - a former army barrack