Time Team

Latest Episodes

• Season 20 Episode 12: Twenty Years of Time Team

  In a special 20th anniversary celebration for the programme, Tony Robinson relives the best bits from more than 200 episodes, taking in major highlights such as digging up the garden of Buckingham Palace to reveal a crashed Spitfire and discovering the first stone circle to be found in Britain for 150 years. There is a reminder of how the show grew from nervous beginnings in a Somerset field into attempting city-wide digs and promoting nationwide events in which thousands of people spent the weekend digging in their own back gardens

• Season 20 Episode 11: Trial and Error: The Time Team Guide to Experimental Archaeology

  Tony Robinson celebrates the many practical experiments and re-creations that he and the team have conducted over the past 20 years to unlock the mysteries exposed by their digs. The programme revisits some memorable highlights from shows of yesteryear, from making individual objects like Stone Age axes, Roman pewter bowls, medieval pottery and King Arthur's sword, to building an entire Iron Age house and a Roman machine to lift water from a deep well

• Season 20 Episode 10: An Englishman's Castle

  The team investigates acres of overgrown gardens surrounding Upton Castle in Pembrokeshire, the centre of a romantic mystery for owners Steve and Pru Barlow. The pair bought what looked like a medieval castle at the front and a Victorian mansion at the back, leaving the origins of the complex unclear. The group digs trenches to look for a courtyard, while building specialists crawl through the roof and an excavation for the remains of a drawbridge takes place. Presented by Tony Robinson