Time Team - Season 2

First aired: 1/8/1995 5 episodes

Episodes

1. Lord of the Isles - Finlaggan, Islay

Aired: 1/8/1995

The Time Team travel to a group of islands on the western side of Scotland to investigate a culture known as the "Lords of the Isls" - who ruled the islands 1000 years ago. The team joins a group from the Scottish National University who've been working in the area for some five years uncovering the history of these people. What the Time Team discovers throws the whole excavation into a new light and suggests people may have lived in the area thousands of years prior.

2. The Saxon Graves - Winterbourne Gunner, Wiltshire

Aired: 1/15/1995

The Time Team visit Hylton Castle near Sunderland. A local group want to redevelop the local area as a tourist attraction but don't want to disturb any hidden structures.

3. The Lost Villa - Tockenham, Wiltshire

Aired: 1/22/1995

Tockenham village, in the Wiltshire countryside. Despite the fact that there are no Roman remains in Tockenham, the village's 15th century church, St Giles, has a small pagan Roman statue embedded in one of its outer walls.

4. The Archbishop's Back Garden - Lambeth Palace, London

Aired: 1/29/1995

The Time Team traveled to Lambet Palace in the heart of London. They are trying to unravel the enigma of why the Romans crossed the Thames in a different area to where they developed the city. The team needs to employ some extreme archeology to try an understand what the Romans where thinking.

5. Medieval Dining Hall - Hylton Castle, Sunderland

Aired: 2/5/1995

The Time Team travel to Winterbourne Gunner in Wiltshire to investigate a housing development that has come to a halt because of an alarming number of Saxon graves found in the area They successfully work their way through the maze of finds but in doing so discover what seems to be a whole new layer of history in the town.