Time Team: Season 6
Season 6 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 5.
- 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 6 Progress Shield
Wedgwood's First Factory - Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent
Jan 3, 1999 · 50 min
The Team are in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, to investigate what remains of Josiah Wedgwood's first factory and to discover what pottery he was making there. They find evidence of seve
Back Garden Roman Finds - Papcastle, Cumbria
Jan 10, 1999 · 50 min
The team are in North West England, investigating Roman finds and a possible Roman building, unearthed in a family's back garden. The house is just 100 metres from a Roman fort, an
Dominican Friary Church and Norman Cathedral - Thetford, Norfolk
Jan 17, 1999 · 50 min
Time Team have been invited by pupils of Thetford Grammar School in Norfolk, to investigate the remains of a Dominican friary church and a 1,000-year-old Norman cathedral, in their
Cooper's Hole - Cheddar Gorge, Somerset
Jan 24, 1999 · 50 min
Investigation, at the invitation of the cave's owner, the Marquess of Bath, to see if there is evidence of Palaeolithic human activity in the cave. This may be among the oldest hom
Medieval Plympton - Plympton, Devon
Jan 31, 1999 · 50 min
In the 12th century many towns were designed and laid out on regular lines. The people of Plympton believe there is enough evidence to plot the layout of the medieval town which su
Tudor Dockyard - Smallhythe, Kent
Feb 7, 1999 · 50 min
Looking for evidence of a 15th century dock, the team are in Small Hythe. The dock was once next to the mile-wide River Rother but its location is now an overgrown field, ten miles
Golf Course Roman Bathhouse - Beauport Park, Sussex
Feb 14, 1999 · 50 min
Historian Guy de la Bedoyere asks the team to investigate the isolated ruins of a bath-house, discovered by Gerald Brodribb in the midst of dense Sussex woodland. Gerald has made a
Bombers In Reedham Marshes - Reedham, Norfolk
Feb 21, 1999 · 50 min
Time Team team up with air crash investigators to discover what happened to two B-17 bombers which crashed with loss of all lives on board on 21 February 1944 into marshes near Ree
Back To Turkdean - Turkdean, Gloucestershire
Feb 28, 1999 · 50 min
Time Team revisit a live dig from 1997, where they found a large Roman complex in a Gloucestershire field. But at the same time, geophysics recorded evidence of more buildings. And
Field Cropmarks - Kemerton, Worcestershire
Mar 7, 1999 · 50 min
An aerial survey of a Worcestershire field has revealed cropmarks leading to substantial Bronze Age finds. But Iron Age remains also exist. Time Team tries to sort it out. Local sc
Ruined Norman Church - Bawsey, Norfolk
Mar 14, 1999 · 50 min
This live dig centres on a ruined Norman church on a hill in Norfolk. This National Trust site promises to be the richest source of finds that Time Team have yet seen, with previou
Montravers Estate (Part 1) - Nevis, West Indies
Mar 21, 1999 · 50 min
Invited by historian David Small, the team are on the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis, for a six-day dig to uncover the history of sugar production and slavery here. They are invest
Montravers Estate (Part 2) - Nevis, West Indies
Mar 28, 1999 · 50 min
Invited by historian David Small, the team are on the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis, for a six-day dig to uncover the history of sugar production and slavery here. They are invest