Time Team: Season 9
Season 9 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 8.
- 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 9 Progress Shield
London's First Bridge - Vauxhall, London
Jan 6, 2002 · 50 min
At low tide on the foreshore of the Thames near Vauxhall Bridge in central London, a series of timber stumps is visible. How old are they, and what was their purpose? Time Team hav
The Roman's Panic - Ancaster, Lincolnshire
Jan 13, 2002 · 50 min
Ancaster has yielded numerous Roman finds as well as a large cemetery with several sarcophagi from the period. In addition, the church is known in British archaeology for a Roman i
Diving for the Armada - Kinlochbervie, Sutherland
Jan 20, 2002 · 50 min
The team travel to West Scotland to investigate the wreck of a ship that may have been part of the Spanish armada. As this is a classic case of rescue archaeology, they are joined
The Naughty Monastery - Chicksands, Bedfordshire
Jan 27, 2002 · 50 min
The team are invited to investigate the officers' mess of a military base in Bedfordshire, once home to monks and nuns of a 14th century Gilbertine Order. It was an experiment in u
The Furnace in the Cellar - Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire
Feb 3, 2002 · 50 min
The team head for a pub in Leighton, whose cellar contains the remains of a blast furnace once used for smelting iron. When Tony arrives, test pits are already being dug, and Geoph
An Ermine Street Pub - Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
Feb 10, 2002 · 50 min
It is 40 years since amateur archaeologists dug up Roman remains near Ermine Street, now hidden beneath Cheshunt Park. Time Team tell the story of the original excavation, using th
Iron-Age Market - Helford, Cornwall
Feb 17, 2002 · 50 min
Two massive hill forts on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, at Gear and Caer Vallack, have never been excavated. In fact, no major Cornish Iron Age site has ever been investigated.
Siege House in Shropshire - High Ercall, Shropshire
Feb 24, 2002 · 50 min
The owners of a Tudor house, High Ercall Hall, want Time Team to investigate a bloody confrontation between the Roundheads and Cavaliers during the English Civil War, 350 years ago
A Prehistoric Airfield - Throckmorton, Worcestershire
Mar 3, 2002 · 50 min
Hoping to uncover Bronze Age burials, the team descend on a disused airfield. But initial finds suggest the Iron Age, while geophysics shows plenty of circles and some larger recta
A Lost Roman City - Castleford, Yorkshire
Mar 10, 2002 · 50 min
The medieval castle of Beaudesert in Henley-in-Arden suddenly vanished without trace, leaving a single stone on top of a mound. The people want to know what it looked like. "The Mo
Every Castle Needs a Lord - Beaudesert, Warwickshire
Mar 17, 2002 · 50 min
The medieval castle of Beaudesert in Henley-in-Arden suddenly vanished without trace, leaving a single stone on top of a mound. The people want to know what it looked like. "The Mo
Steptoe Et Filius - Yaverland, Isle of Wight
Mar 24, 2002 · 50 min
Two years ago, local archaeologist Kevin Trott discovered Roman remains in a trench being dug for a water pipe. Unfortunately the trench had to be closed, and now Time Team are hav
Seven Buckets and a Buckle - Breamore, Hampshire
Mar 31, 2002 · 50 min
A Byzantine brass bucket was found during a 3-day live dig in a Saxon cemetery a year ago. Time Team returns to find out more about the people who lived and died here. Metal detect