Time Team: Season 8
Season 8 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 7.
- 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 8 Progress Shield
An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Normanton, Lincolnshire
Jan 7, 2001 · 49 min
The team are intrigued that an Anglo-Saxon cemetery should contain Roman pottery. They are joined by archaeologist Naomi Field, Maggie Darling (Roman pottery expert), Martin Welch
The Man Who Bought a Castle - Alderton, Northamptonshire
Jan 14, 2001 · 49 min
Derek Batten bought a plot of land advertised as a castle and moat; but there is little sign of a castle other than a tree-covered mound surrounded by a huge ditch. So he has asked
The Celtic Spring - Llygadwy, Powys
Jan 21, 2001 · 50 min
In deepest Wales lies an extraordinary site, with a Megalith, a Neolithic tomb, a Norman watchtower, early Christian symbols, and a natural spring. From this spring, the landowner
A Waltham Villa - Waltham Field, Whittington, Gloucestershire
Jan 28, 2001 · 50 min
Time Team want to paint a picture of a family living in a Roman villa in the Cotswolds almost 2000 years ago. So they decide to dig a site near Fosse Way, only a few hundred metres
The Lost Viaduct - Blaenavon, Torfaen
Feb 4, 2001 · 50 min
Time Team attempt to find what is reputed to be the first railway viaduct. Built in 1790, to move coal efficiently from the mine to the Blaenavon Ironworks, one mountain over, hors
A Palace Sold for Scrap - Rycote, Thame, Oxfordshire
Feb 11, 2001 · 50 min
The owners of Rycote House live in a lovely converted stable block, but they believe that the extremely grand house that once stood on the property and which hosted Tudor royalty b
An Iron-Age Roundhouse - Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
Feb 18, 2001 · 49 min
The team are on Salisbury Plain, over 38,000 hectares of land in South West England owned by the MOD. Though the whole area is rich in ancient remains, they are concentrating on Be
The Bone Caves - Alveston, Gloucestershire
Feb 25, 2001 · 49 min
A pile of bones has been discovered in a narrow cave. They include cows, dogs and a human skull, which have been dated to the late Iron Age Celts. Local archaeologist Mark Horton i
The Inter-City Villa - Basildon, Berkshire
Mar 4, 2001 · 49 min
While laying Brunel's Great Western Railway line 50 miles from London, navvies discovered mosaic floors indicating a Roman villa. The mosaics were broken up and the whole site igno
Holy Island - Lindisfarne, Northumberland
Mar 11, 2001 · 49 min
The team look at a wide range of historical deposits on the iconic Holy Island of Lindisfarne, including evidence of military activity in the 16th and 17th centuries. They are join
The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth - Bridgnorth, Shropshire
Mar 18, 2001 · 49 min
All that is left of Bridgnorth Castle is the 70-foot Norman tower. The team are in the park, trying to piece together what it looked like in its heyday, 900 years ago. They must di
Three Tales of Canterbury - Canterbury, Kent
Mar 25, 2001 · 49 min
In highlights from a previous live dig, the team visit the ancient city of Canterbury to investigate three separate sites, all connected by their religious functions. There is a Ro
The Leper Hospital - Winchester, Hampshire
Apr 1, 2001 · 49 min
Outside of the city boundaries of Winchester, in what is today known as Hospital Field, once stood the St Mary Magdalen Leper Hospital. Probably founded in around 1140 by Henry of