In this popular and (literally) groundbreaking programme, Tony Robinson and a team of experts travel the country to investigate a wide range of archaeological sites of historical importance.
In this popular and (literally) groundbreaking programme, Tony Robinson and a team of experts travel the country to investigate a wide range of archaeological sites of historical importance.
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Seasons (25)
Season 1 · Series 1
16 Jan 1994 – 6 Feb 1994 · 4 episodes
1The Guerrilla Base of the King - Athelney, Somerset16 Jan 1994
2On the Edge of an Empire - Ribchester, Lancashire23 Jan 1994
3The New Town of a Norman Prince - Much Wenlock, Shropshire30 Jan 1994
4The Fortress in the Lake - Llangorse Lake, Powys6 Feb 1994
Season 2
8 Jan 1995 – 5 Feb 1995 · 5 episodes
1Lords of the Isles - Finlaggan, Islay, Scotland8 Jan 1995
2The Saxon Graves - Winterbourne Gunner, Wiltshire15 Jan 1995
3The Lost Villa - Tockenham, Wiltshire22 Jan 1995
4The Archbishop's Back Garden - Lambeth Palace, London29 Jan 1995
5Medieval Dining Hall - Hylton Castle, Sunderland5 Feb 1995
Season 3
7 Jan 1996 – 11 Feb 1996 · 6 episodes
1Prehistoric Fogou - Boleigh, Cornwall7 Jan 1996
2Hunting for Mammoth - Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire14 Jan 1996
3Village of the Templars - Templecombe, Somerset21 Jan 1996
4A Wreck of the Spanish Armada - Teignmouth, Devon28 Jan 1996
5Palace of the Irish Kings - Navan Fort, County Armagh4 Feb 1996
6Treasures of the Roman Field - Lavenham, Suffolk11 Feb 1996
Season 4
5 Jan 1997 – 9 Feb 1997 · 6 episodes
1Maryland, USA - St Mary's City, Maryland, USA5 Jan 1997
2Mystery of the Cornish Skeletons - Launceston, Cornwall12 Jan 1997
3Steam-Powered Mint - Soho, Birmingham19 Jan 1997
48th Century Church - Govan, Glasgow26 Jan 1997
5Norman and Medieval Castles - Malton, North Yorkshire2 Feb 1997
6Roman Villa - Netheravon, Wiltshire9 Feb 1997
Season 5
4 Jan 1998 – 1 Mar 1998 · 8 episodes
1Search for Richmond Palace - Richmond, Surrey4 Jan 1998
2Somerset Levels - Greylake, Somerset11 Jan 1998
3Sanday, Orkney - Sanday, Orkney Islands18 Jan 1998
4Turkdean - Turkdean, Gloucestershire25 Jan 1998
5Beaker Settlement, Majorca, Spain - Deya, Mallorca, Spain1 Feb 1998
6Aston Eyre - Aston Eyre, Shropshire8 Feb 1998
7Cathedral Hill, Downpatrick - Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland22 Feb 1998
8High Worsall - High Worsall, North Yorkshire1 Mar 1998
Season 6
3 Jan 1999 – 28 Mar 1999 · 13 episodes
1Wedgwood's First Factory - Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent3 Jan 1999
2Roman Building - Papcastle, Cumbria10 Jan 1999
3Dominican Friary - Thetford, Norfolk17 Jan 1999
4Cooper's Hole - Cheddar Gorge, Somerset24 Jan 1999
5Episode Five - Plympton, Devon31 Jan 1999
6Medieval Dockyard - Smallhythe, Kent7 Feb 1999
7Roman Bath-house - Beauport Park, East Sussex14 Feb 1999
8Bombers in Reedham Marshes - Reedham Marshes, Norfolk21 Feb 1999
9Turkdean II - Turkdean, Gloucestershire28 Feb 1999
10Bronze Age - Kemerton, Worcestershire7 Mar 1999
11Norman Church - Bawsey, Norfolk14 Mar 1999
12Nevis (Part 1 of 2) - Nevis Island, West Indies21 Mar 1999
13Nevis (Part 2 of 2) - Nevis Island, West Indies28 Mar 1999
Season 7
2 Jan 2000 – 26 Mar 2000 · 13 episodes
1A Muslim Port in Spain - Denia, Costa Blanca, Spain2 Jan 2000
2The Mosaic at the Bottom of the Garden - Cirencester, Gloucestershire9 Jan 2000
3One of the First Spitfires Lost in France - Wierre-Effroy, France16 Jan 2000
4An Iron-Age Roundhouse and a Henge - Waddon, Dorset13 Jan 2000
5Hadrian's Wall - Birdoswald, Cumbria30 Jan 2000
6In Search of the Earliest Traces of Mankind - Elveden, Suffolk6 Feb 2000
7The Missing Cathedral and the Diabetic Prior - Coventry, West Midlands13 Feb 2000
8The Royalists' Last Stand - Basing House, Hampshire20 Feb 2000
9A Bronze-Age Barrow and Walkway - Flag Fen, Cambridgeshire27 Feb 2000
10In Search of the Palace of King Offa - Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire5 Mar 2000
11A Roman Temple in Sight of the Millennium Dome - Greenwich, London12 Mar 2000
12Nuns in Northumbria - Hartlepool, County Durham19 Mar 2000
13York - York, Yorkshire26 Mar 2000
Season 8
7 Jan 2001 – 1 Apr 2001 · 13 episodes
1An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery in Lincolnshire - Normanton, Lincolnshire7 Jan 2001
2The Man Who Bought a Castle - Alderton, Northamptonshire14 Jan 2001
3The Celtic Spring - Llygadwy, Powys, Wales21 Jan 2001
4A Waltham Villa - Waltham Field, Whittington, Gloucestershire28 Jan 2001
5The Lost Viaduct - Blaenavon, Torfaen, South Wales4 Feb 2001
6A Palace Sold for Scrap - Rycote, Thame, Oxfordshire11 Feb 2001
7An Iron-Age Roundhouse - Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire18 Feb 2001
8The Bone Caves - Alveston, Gloucestershire25 Feb 2001
9The Inner-City Villa - Basildon, Berkshire4 Mar 2001
10Holy Island - Lindisfarne, Northumberland11 Mar 2001
11The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth - Bridgnorth, Shropshire18 Mar 2001
12Three Tales of Canterbury - Canterbury, Kent25 Mar 2001