21 Season
239 Episode
Time Team - Season 8 Episode 2 The Man Who Bought a Castle - Alderton, Northamptonshire
Derek Batten bought a plot of land advertised as a castle and moat; but there is little sign of a castle other than a tree-covered mound surrounded by a huge ditch. So he has asked Time Team to sort it out. Because the site is a scheduled ancient monument, the team have to get permission from English Heritage for strictly limited excavations. To complicate matters further, Tony has to adjudicate on a long-running boundary dispute. The team is joined by castles expert Philip Dixon. Phil Harding gets kitted-out in chainmail as a Saxon footsoldier, facing a mounted Norman warrior on a Spanish stallion. The site is finally identified as a ringwork castle, built on a previous Saxon structure around the time of the Norman Conquest.
- Year: 2024
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary, Mystery
- Studio: More4, Channel 4, YouTube
- Keyword: investigation, educational, british history, archeological dig, archeology
- Director: Tim Taylor
- Cast: Gus Casely-Hayford, Natalie Haynes, Carenza Lewis, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake