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Nov 2002 - Dec 2002

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Best Episodes of Time Team Digs

  • The Dark Ages

    S1 Ep5

    7.5

    29th Nov 2002

    After the Romans left Britain early in the fifth century, waves of other invaders moved in. Jutes, Angles, Saxon, Vikings and Norsemen, all left their mark during a turbulent period of British history. There's all the more fascinating for being so difficult to unpick. Without archaeology, we'd have precious little idea of what was going on during this period at all.

  • Roman Britain

    S1 Ep4

    7.5

    22nd Nov 2002

    When the Romans invaded Britain in 43AD, they quickly won over most of the local tribal chiefs. And in return for support from the native Britons, they introduced them to the good life, Roman style.

Worst Episodes of Time Team Digs

  • The Bronze Age

    S1 Ep1

    5.2

    1st Nov 2002

    Tony Robinson presents a rich picture of Bronze Age Britain from Time Team's 20-year archive, starting with the oldest man-made item ever found on the programme, a flint axe found in the topsoil in a Worcestershire field (dig no.40). And Mick explains how cropmarks in fields can be used to identify structures from different periods. As shown in the Waddon dig (dig no.49), Bronze Age monuments can be found rubbing shoulders with Iron Age remains - in this case, a henge. These mysterious and charismatic structures are often made of timber, and thus rot away. But in 1999 the team had the opportunity to watch the excavation of a complete henge preserved on a Norfolk coast - not without some opposition (dig no.45). One of Time Team's specialities is reconstruction, and they decided to replicate the original seahenge using ancient technology. In dig 24, dig 54 and dig 77 they did a similar exercise with wooden walkways. Tony is joined by Richard Bradley from Reading University, who explains why it's called the Bronze Age, illustrated with some beautiful objects from the period.

  • Medieval England

    S1 Ep6

    6.0

    6th Dec 2002

    In the 14th and 15th centuries, England was a prosperous place. You can see evidence of the growing population and rising wealth in the development of our towns and cities. But, it was also a country of war, famine and social unrest.

Time Team Digs Episode Guide

  • The Bronze Age

    S1 Ep1

    5.2

    1st Nov 2002

    Tony Robinson presents a rich picture of Bronze Age Britain from Time Team's 20-year archive, starting with the oldest man-made item ever found on the programme, a flint axe found in the topsoil in a Worcestershire field (dig no.40). And Mick explains how cropmarks in fields can be used to identify structures from different periods. As shown in the Waddon dig (dig no.49), Bronze Age monuments can be found rubbing shoulders with Iron Age remains - in this case, a henge. These mysterious and charismatic structures are often made of timber, and thus rot away. But in 1999 the team had the opportunity to watch the excavation of a complete henge preserved on a Norfolk coast - not without some opposition (dig no.45). One of Time Team's specialities is reconstruction, and they decided to replicate the original seahenge using ancient technology. In dig 24, dig 54 and dig 77 they did a similar exercise with wooden walkways. Tony is joined by Richard Bradley from Reading University, who explains why it's called the Bronze Age, illustrated with some beautiful objects from the period.

  • The Iron Age

    S1 Ep2

    7.5

    8th Nov 2002

    If schoolboy history is to be believed, Iron Age Britain was full of wooed painted men and women running around spearing each other at every opportunity. Well we found that the Iron Age Brits were at times a bloodthirsty lot, and over the last ten years we’ve been surprised, amazed and occasionally shocked by what we’ve uncovered.

  • The Roman Invasion (a.k.a: The Early Romans)

    S1 Ep3

    7.5

    15th Nov 2002

    If I asked you what the Romans did to Britain I guess you come up with quite a list. They built our first highways and cities. They introduced a legal system, bureaucracy, taxes.

Time Team Digs is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 2002. Presented by the actor Tony Robinson, the show is a spin-off of the archaeology series Time Team, that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994. It is also known as Time Team Digs: A History of Britain. Time Team Digs is an eight-part series looking at previous Time Team digs, with each episode focusing on a particular period in history, going from the Bronze Age to the modern day.

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The best rated episodes of Time Team Digs are:
  • The Dark Ages S1E5 rated 7.5
  • Roman Britain S1E4 rated 7.5
The lowest rated episodes of Time Team Digs are:
  • The Bronze Age S1E1 rated 5.2
  • Medieval England S1E6 rated 6.0

The first episode of Time Team Digs aired on November 01, 2002.

The last episode of Time Team Digs aired on December 20, 2002.

There are 8 episodes of Time Team Digs.

There is one season of Time Team Digs.

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Time Team Digs has ended.