Time Team

In this episode you’ll find out about the discovery of a medieval moat around an ancient farm site near Tewkesbury with Jon Hart from Cotswold Archaeology. You’ll meet Time Team’s buildings archaeologist, Richard Parker. He explains how analysing architecture can shed light on the way people used to live. Harry Manley demonstrates how getting up high above the landscape with a drone can benefit th...

Archaeologist Dr Helen Geake and co-host Martyn Williams talk about the discovery of an ancient Roman knife handle found at Hadrian's Wall. You'll find out why it's not as recent a discovery as news reports might suggest. There's news from China where analysis of over one-thousand artefacts are only just starting to reveal new secrets about the people of Sanxingdui, in the western Sichuan province...

Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams take you deeper into the world of archaeology with the help of Time Team. In this episode Keith Wescott demonstrates how to use a metal detector to unearth rare finds, Giselle Király updates you on a rare folded dog tag, found whilst digging a site where the famous Band of Brothers had trained during the Second World War and you'll meet the technical wizard behin...

The Time Team podcast returns with big news. We're going back to dig at Sutton Hoo in 2025! Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams hear from Prof. Martin Carver who carried out major excavations of the site in the 1980s. Finding out more about the burial mounds, the buried Anglo-Saxon ship and the exotic byzantine bucket. He explains why it's such an important place archaeologically and how it still h...

Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams bring you a special episode of the Time Team podcast from an archaeological dig at Norton Disney in Lincolnshire, the ancestral home of Walt Disney himself! This episode is your chance to find out what it's like to be at a Time Team dig, as Helen and Martyn record the podcast from the very heart of the excavation. You'll hear from plenty of archaeologists in the...

In this episode of the Time Team podcast Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams hear about the latest discoveries at a site dubbed England's Pompeii. You'll find out how the Bronze Age settlement, home to around 60 people, burned down in 850BC but has been almost-perfectly preserved, giving a snapshot of what life in Cambridgeshire was like around 3,000 years ago. Mark Knight, from the Cambridge Archa...

In the second episode of the all-new Time Team podcast archaeologist Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams speak to Francesca Giarelli from Red River Archaeology about a Roman villa hidden under a new housing development in Oxfordshire! Also, you'll hear how Martyn got on when he met up with digger driver Jon Beaver to have a go in his "big yellow trowel" and Time Team's creator, Tim Taylor tells you...

Welcome to the first episode of a new-look Time Team podcast. Archaeologist Dr Helen Geake and co-host Martyn Williams bring the past to life with the help of the Time Team family. You'll discover the stage, hidden for hundreds of years, where William Shakespeare performed; Time Team's creator, Tim Taylor, tells you where he originally got the idea for the hit Channel 4 programme in 1994; ancestry...

This is the Time Team podcast. Join Dr Helen Geake and Martyn Williams as they bring the past to life. New episodes start on Tuesday 3rd September 2024. Here's a taster of what you can expect from Time Team. If you like what you hear, make sure you hit follow so you don't miss an episode.