Time Team 1998

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Time Team - Series 5 - 1998

Originally broadcast on Channel 4



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Episode 01 Richmond, Surrey.

Aired: 04 January 1998. Recorded: 25 - 27 July 1997. Duration = 00:47:48

The team descend on an immaculate croquet lawn at Trumpeters House in Richmond, Surrey, in search of the remains of one of the most opulent monuments of the Tudor dynasty, Richmond Palace.



Episode 02 Greylake, Somerset.

Aired: 11 January 1998. Recorded: 17 - 19 March 1997. Duration = 00:47:54

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 across wooden walkways. Now the team hope to find evidence of these footbridges.



Episode 03 Sanday, Orkney Islands.

Aired: 18 January 1998. Recorded: 07 - 09 June 1997. Duration = 00:47:52

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 four mysterious mounds there are evidence of a Viking settlement or even a Viking burial site.



Episode 04 Turkdean, Gloucestershire.

Aired: 25 January 1998. Recorded: 23 - 25 August 1997. Duration = 00:47:57

Tony Robinson and the team return to the site of a previous dig in 1998 which unearthed a Roman villa in the Cotswolds. They discover that the villa dates from the very first days of the Roman occupation. Amongst their new finds is an entire, untouched Roman water course.



Episode 05 Deya, Mallorca.

Aired: 01 February 1998. Recorded: 09 - 11 May 1997. Duration = 00:47:30

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. The Beaker people flourished in Europe around 4,000 BC, but there is very little evidence of their civilisation, which is thought to have made the first use of metal.



Episode 06 Aston Eyre, Shropshire.

Aired: 08 February 1998. Recorded: 27 - 29 June 1997. Duration = 00:47:57

The team travel to a Shropshire farm house in Aston Eyre and discover the great hall of a medieval manor complex.



Episode 07 Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland.

Aired: 22 February 1998. Recorded: 19 - 21 September 1997. Duration = 00:48:00

The team travel to Downpatrick in Northern Ireland to excavate one of Britain's most important religious sites. Upon Cathedral Hill is the site of the first settlement of St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.



Episode 08 High Worsall, North Yorkshire.

Aired: 01 March. Recorded: 10 - 12 October 1997. Duration = 00:47:48

In this episode, the 'Time Team' are in Worsall, near Middlesbrough. The archaeology fanatics have just three days to solve the mystery of why the population of a medieval village disappeared into thin air.



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