Time Team — Season 4
11 Episodes · Premiered March 22, 2025 · Ended September 5, 2025
Episodes
Derek Pitman and Meg Russell present a studio based run down of everything coming up for the Time Team in 2025 - from new film releases to ongoing projects and planned excavations and surveys.Guest appearances include Helen Geake, John Gater, Hilde Van Der Heul, and Richard Osgood; Dani Wootton presents the archaeological news from around the UK and the globe; and author Raven Todd da Silva joins us on the sofa to discuss her latest book ‘The Other Ancient Civilisations'.Special thanks to everyone involved at Bournemouth University including their second year TV Production students for making this possible.
Poverty Point is a UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of a complex of monumental earthworks located in Louisiana, USA. Recently, a series of mound-like features were discovered in a GPR survey buried beneath the ground in the centre of the site. Time Team's geophys wizz Jimmy Adcock travels across the Atlantic to join a team of archeologists investigating these mysterious subterranean features. Could the origin of these mounds provide the answer to why Poverty Point's prehistoric inhabitants chose this location for their ancient city? The team has just three days to find out!The Poverty Point resistivity survey was partially supported by a grant from the ISAP Fund of the International Society for Archaeological Prospection.
Join Time Team Saturday 5th April at 7pm BST for the live premiere!Dr John Gater joins Dr Philippa Walton, Time Team's Roman finds expert, in her day job as Lecturer in Roman Archaeology at the University of Leicester. The episode goes behind the scenes at one of the University's archaeological fieldschools. The 2-week dig was run as a fieldschool for first-year students from the University's School of Archaeology and Ancient History. For most, it was their first taste of an actual archaeological dig, with the added excitement of becoming media stars! The site itself promised to be an exciting Roman Villa - what better way to get a taste of archaeology! The episode features candid mobile phone footage of the dig and Time Team cameras caught up with the students and supervisors during post-excavation.Staff from the School of Archaeology and Ancient History are Dr Philippa Walton and Dr Jeremy Taylor.University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) StaffJennifer BrowningTom ClaytonJames HarveyWill Johnson-MossJohn ThomasFirst and Second Year SAAH Students
The Expedition Crew are itching to get back in the field… but where should they go next? In Time Team's brand-new video you can watch as the crew go head-to-head in the ultimate Site Wrestle – pitching their dream dig locations to Tim Taylor in a timed, no-nonsense showdown. There's passion, persuasion, and a few unexpected curveballs as Tim grills them on their archaeological ambitions.To help them decide which site is the winner - Patreon members will also get exclusive access to a poll so you can vote for which location you would choose…Watch the full Site Wrestle Saturday 10th May at 7PM (BST) on our YouTube channel and get ready to back your favourite dig!
In July 1944, an American B17 bomber aircraft, ‘Little Boy Blue', crashed over the fields of Suffolk. Of the ten crew, just two survived, with three still officially unaccounted for. Time Team's Helen Geake joins an international team from Cotswold Archaeology and Operation Nightingale to investigate the scene of the crash, in hope of shedding new light on the events of that fateful day.Working with the US government, in fulfilment of its ethos to ‘leave no man behind', the mission aims to repatriate the missing airmen, and provide closure for their families.In this moving feature-length episode, the team pay their respects to the ‘Masters of the Air'.Note: This is a formal DPAA recovery mission, led on the ground by Cotswold Archaeology, supported by Operation Nightingale, Cranfield University, local volunteers, and the US military.Special thanks to landowner, Steve Honeywood, for his generous support of the mission.
In this episode, the Time Team Expedition Crew—Lawrence, Naomi, Derek, Hilde, and a small group of volunteers—head to Farley Moor, Derbyshire, just outside the Peak District National Park. This rugged landscape of gritstone moors is rich in prehistoric monuments, from henges and ring cairns to stone circles, but the team's focus is a single, enigmatic standing stone. Could it be a remnant of a larger, lost, Bronze Age monument?Armed with little more than their camper vans, digging tools, and cameraman Ben to document their journey, the team sets out to map, investigate, and uncover the hidden history of this mysterious site. Join us as we follow their discoveries and explore the forgotten secrets of Farley Moor.
Hosted by Tony Robinson, Time Team's historic dig in an Anglo Saxon cemetery at Sutton Hoo gets underway. It's one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, famous for the Great Anglo Saxon Ship Burial. The team undertake a month-long dig in Garden Field to try to find the origins of this incredible site. If they can understand what's happening in this field, they might be able to understand the entire site including the Royal Burial Ground. They join forces with Prof. Martin Carver and a team of archaeologists who dug the Royal Burial Ground in the 1980s.In Part 1 of 3 parts following the first season at Sutton Hoo, Tony and the team get stuck into the first week of excavations, and delve into the history of the site. Tony reveals how the discovery of the great ship burial changed our understanding of Anglo Saxon society.. The Team begin to suspect that a cemetery under the Visitor's Centre extends into Garden Field. And a strong metal detecting signal suggests to the team that they might have found the missing parts of a rare and beautiful Byzantine bucket partly ploughed up 30 years ago. Dr Helen Geake reveals her very personal connection with the site, which goes back to her student days, when she and other members of the team discovered some extraordinary burials under the other mounds in the Royal Burial ground. Dr. John Gater reveals the Geofizz that he and Jimmy Adcock did in 2021 and Stewart takes a wander through the landscape.
In Part 2, the Geofizz team hunt for an anglo saxon settlement and a Hall. And they discover an extraordinary anomaly which could shed light on Sutton Hoo's Anglo Saxon shipping history. Carenza and Dani recruit about 40 volunteers to investigate the area in a series of test pits, and Derek and Lawrence take to the water.. In Garden Field, the dig continues with more graves being identified and pieces of intriguing grave goods. The big metal detecting signal gets bigger. Derek and Helen make an exciting discovery about the fabric of the Byzantine Bucket.Hosted by Tony Robinson, Time Team's historic dig in an Anglo Saxon cemetery at Sutton Hoo gets underway. It's one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, famous for the Great Anglo Saxon Ship Burial. The team undertake a month-long dig in Garden Field to try to find the origins of this incredible site. If they can understand what's happening in this field, they might be able to understand the entire site including the Royal Burial Ground. They join forces with Prof. Martin Carver and a team of archaeologists who dug the Royal Burial Ground in the 1980s.
In Part 3, The Dig Jackie McKinlay rejoins the team as the Dig reaches an exciting climax in the middle of a heatwave as they discover the source of the big metal detecting signal. Tony explores some of the more extraordinary medieval execution burials found in the Royal Burial ground. The program focusses on some of the developments in Anglo Saxon craftsmanship. Hilde meets the Sutton Hoo Textiles group who are using experimental archaeology to recreate some sumptuous Anglo Saxon textiles. And the man who recreated the Bromeswell Bucket explains how it nearly hospitalised him.Hosted by Tony Robinson, Time Team's historic dig in an Anglo Saxon cemetery at Sutton Hoo gets underway. It's one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, famous for the Great Anglo Saxon Ship Burial. The team undertake a month-long dig in Garden Field to try to find the origins of this incredible site. If they can understand what's happening in this field, they might be able to understand the entire site including the Royal Burial Ground. They join forces with Prof. Martin Carver and a team of archaeologists who dug the Royal Burial Ground in the 1980s.
In the final episode of Time Team's first season at Sutton Hoo, Jackie, Naomi and Justin Garner Lahire join Sophie Courtiaud at York Archaeology and Tom Sparrow of University of Bradford team up to micro excavate the base and contents of the Bromeswell Bucket. Join us to discover what they find.Join Time Team 20th May at 7pm BST for the Premiere!
COMING SOON!Join Time Team as we venture to the picturesque village of Norton Disney in rural Lincolnshire, searching for a long-lost medieval moated manor house. Richard meticulously oversees the trenches, Carenza galvanizes the entire village with over a hundred volunteers, Stewart leads the quest for the elusive moat, and Gus delves into the Disney family's medieval legacy, pushing the village's origins further back in time.Join us on Friday 5th September at 7pm BST for Episode 1 or join our Patreon today for early access!
