Episode guide
Time Team: Season 7
13 episodes · premiered Jan 2, 2000
From this season onwards, Time Team was filmed in widescreen format.
- Episode 1: A Muslim Port In Spain - Denia, Spain Jan 2, 2000 · 50m 1000 years ago, the port of Denia on the Costa Blanca used to be a thriving Islamic outpost in medieval Europe, before being Christianised in 1242. During this period Spain benefitted from…
- Episode 2: The Mosaic at the Bottom of the Garden - Cirencester, Gloucestershire Jan 9, 2000 · 50m In 300 A.D. Corinium Dobunnorum was England's wealthiest city next to Londinium. Now it's the pleasant Gloucestershire town of Cirencester, and Time Team are visiting the leafy suburban…
- Episode 3: One of the First Spitfires Lost in France - Wierre-Effroy, France Jan 16, 2000 · 50m On 23 May 1940 a Spitfire (P9373) flown by RAF pilot Paul Klipsch crashed into a field in Wierre-Effroy, France. Time Team, in concert with WWII aircraft historians and air crash…
- Episode 4: An Iron-Age Roundhouse and a Henge - Waddon, Dorset Jan 23, 2000 · 50m Time Team are doing a spot of gardening. Residents have presented them with evidence of historical activity, in the form of pottery shards and lumps and bumps in the landscape. While…
- Episode 5: Hadrian's Wall - Birdoswald, Cumbria Jan 30, 2000 · 50m The team carry out the first-ever excavation of a cemetery at a Roman fort. This one is a World Heritage Site on Hadrian's Wall, delineating Roman Britain's northern boundary. Dead…
- Episode 6: In Search of the Earliest Traces of Mankind - Elveden, Suffolk Feb 6, 2000 · 50m Beneath a modern holiday village in Suffolk lies evidence of early Stone Age activity, 400,000 years ago. Human remains from this period in England are exceedingly rare, but the team hope…
- Episode 7: The Missing Cathedral and the Diabetic Prior - Coventry, West Midlands Feb 13, 2000 · 50m Coventry's modern cathedral replaced the old cathedral, bombed to destruction by the Luftwaffe in World War II. A 3rd cathedral, St. Mary's, was also a Benedictine priory, demolished in…
- Episode 8: The Royalists' Last Stand - Basing House, Hampshire Feb 20, 2000 · 50m Basing House in Hampshire, owned by the Paulet family was once one of the largest private homes in Britain until besieged and destroyed in the English Civil War. Most of the ruins are a…
- Episode 9: A Bronze-Age Barrow and Walkway - Flag Fenn, Cambridgeshire Feb 27, 2000 · 50m The team have their work cut out in the Cambridgeshire fenland, looking for remnants of an ancient culture in the flat landscape. The long wooden track would function as a barrier, defence…
- Episode 10: In Search of the Palace of King Offa - Sutton, Hereford Mar 5, 2000 · 50m Time Team are in Freen's Court on the English-Welsh border. A recent aerial photograph shows parch marks. The kingdom of Mercia was ruled by the ruthless eighth century King Offa. Could…
- Episode 11: A Roman Temple in Sight of the Millennium Dome - Greenwich Park, London Mar 12, 2000 · 50m The team dig for Roman remains in Greenwich Park, London. They are joined by Hedley Swain from the Museum of London, Harvey Sheldon from the University of London and Mark Hassel from…
- Episode 12: Nuns in Northumbria - Hartlepool, County Durham Mar 19, 2000 · 50m In 1833 builders in Hartlepool, Northumbria found name stones and skeletons in what once was the graveyard of Hartlepool Abbey. Time Team investigates what remains of the monastery led by…
- Episode 13: The Roman Fortress of Eboracum - York, Yorkshire Mar 26, 2000 · 50m The team head to the ancient city of York for a special live dig. Finds include a Roman skeleton with hobnailed boots, and a Viking leather shoe. They are joined by Barney Sloane (site…