Time Team - Unearthing the Roman Invasion

Tockenham in Wiltshire has no Roman remains in the area. So how did a suspiciously pagan-looking statue end up embedded in the wall of the village's medieval church?

The Time Team travels to Hadrian's Wall, the northern limit of the empire and the barrier between Roman Britain and the barbarian north. The crew hopes to find a Roman military cemetery at this UNESCO World Heritage site.

London's Greenwich Park is home to a mysterious clump of stones cemented together and labeled "Roman remains." Just what kind of building were these stones part of--could it be a temple, villa, or even some kind of fort?

For 400 years, the Romans had a presence at Ancaster, an affluent town in present-day Lincolnshire. At the end of the third century CE, the Romans built a huge defensive wall around the town center. The Time Team investigates why.

Located astride a main thoroughfare, Alfoldean was once a thriving village and home to a mansion, an inn for traveling government officials. Robinson and his companions set out to uncover why the site was suddenly--and mysteriously--abandoned.

The Time Team travels to Binchester, site of a huge Roman fort in northern Britain, and to its surrounding vicus, the civilian settlement on which the fort depended--until now largely ignored by archaeologists.

Beneath a Cotswold field lies an entire complex of Roman buildings that dominated the local landscape for centuries. The crew looks for answers in a beautiful and carefully unearthed mosaic.

A muddy field at Wickenby in Lincolnshire has provided hundreds of artifacts and ample evidence of Roman activity, yet there is no record of a Roman settlement nearby. What the Romans did at Wickenby remains a mystery, and Time Team sets out to solve it.

Romano-British temples are the only buildings that have eluded the Time Team over the years. At Friars Wash in Hertfordshire, Robinson and his colleagues believe they at last have one in their sights.

Caerwent in south Wales is the best-preserved Roman town in Britain. But while much of the site has been excavated by archaeologists, other parts of it remain completely unexplored. The Time Team is invited to help fill in the blanks.

The edge of a Wiltshire wheat field is the location of a Roman settlement that was lost for 2,000 years. The Time Team undertakes its biggest investigation ever as it tries to figure out how the town of Cunetio disappeared so completely.

Two mosaics found in a Somerset field in the mid-1800s represent strong evidence that a grand Roman villa lies underneath. But there is a good reason why archaeologists haven't been able to look--the field is in the middle of a British army firing range.