Time Team: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
Richmond Palace - Richmond, Surrey
Jan 4, 1998 · 50 min
Filmed between 25 and 27 July 1997. The team are camped on an immaculate suburban lawn next to the Thames. They are searching for the now vanished Richmond Palace, site of the deat
Bronze-Age Trackway - Greylake, Somerset
Jan 11, 1998 · 50 min
The team go to the Somerset levels in search of a 4,000-year-old wooden trackway. The quickest way to get across the marshes that used to exist here in the Bronze and Iron Ages was
Viking Graves - Orkney, Scotland
Jan 18, 1998 · 50 min
The team go in search of evidence of the invasion of the Vikings, and its influence on ancient Britain. The team travel to the Orcadian island of Sanday to try to find out whether
Roman Villa - Turkdean, Gloucestershire
Jan 25, 1998 · 50 min
3 days of live excavation. The weekend ended with evidence of a Romano-British villa complex that is one of the largest ever found in Britain. This programme is an edited version o
Copper-Age Settlement - Mallorca, Spain
Feb 1, 1998 · 50 min
Time Team goes abroad to tackle one of its most challenging sites. They search for evidence of one of the most enigmatic cultures in the world on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Th
Aston Eyre Farmhouse - Aston Eyre, Shropshire
Feb 8, 1998 · 50 min
Filmed between 27 and 29 June 1997, the team go to Shropshire and search for a complex of medieval buildings in Aston Eyre, where the only remaining building is a farmhouse that us
Cathedral Hill - Downpatrick, County Down
Feb 22, 1998 · 50 min
Recorded between 19 and 21 February 1997, the team look for the early monastic buildings on Cathedral Hill, where according to legend St. Patrick built a monastery and was buried.
Deserted Medieval Village - High Worsall, North Yorkshire
Mar 1, 1998 · 50 min
Filmed between 10 and 12 October 1997, Time Team go to High Worsall, near Middlesbrough, a village that almost completely disappeared hundreds of years ago. Finds: 14th century bui