Time Team - Season 10 Episode 8 Back to Our Roots - Athelney, Somerset

Time Team
Available Formats Time Team Secure Scanned : 11/01/2024 Watch HD Download HD
Time Team

Time Team - Season 10 Episode 8 Back to Our Roots - Athelney, Somerset

Time Team - Season 10 Episode 8 Back to Our Roots - Athelney, Somerset

Overview: Time Team revisits Athelney Abbey, the hideaway of Alfred the Great, and also the very first site investigated by the team one hundred programs earlier. Ten years of technological advances in the meantime has significantly enhanced their geophysical survey methods and changes in heritage management attitudes have also given them the permission to dig at the site. Slag and magnetic readings suggest that iron and steel was smelted and worked at Athelney, the latter being a good indication of Anglo-Saxon presence. At the abbey site itself Phil and his diggers uncover several burials. Reenactors show Anglo-Saxon dress and weaponry and their Viking counterparts as the experimental part of the program, while Carenza and Tony make – and burn – traditional Saxon cakes. The archaeologists find a number of objects, a Medieval graveyard associated with Athelney abbey, a metalworking complex, and a substantial defensive ditch dug in the Iron Age, but reused in the time of king Alfred.

Watch Trailer First Air Date: Jan 16, 1994 Last Air date: Apr 07, 2024 Season: 21 Season Episode: 239 Episode Runtime: 50 minutes Quality: HD IMDb: 7.10 / 10 by 14 users Popularity: 23.159 Language: English

Similar Movies

Recomendation Movies