Time Team Season 1 (1994)

Time Team Season 1 Episodes

S01E01· 1994-01-16· 50m

The Guerrilla Base of the King - Athelney, Somerset

In this first ever episode of Time Team, Tony and the team travel to Athelney in Somerset to investigate a series of hills (once islands in a bog) that became Alfred The Great last defensive positions after a series of losses to invading Viking forces. It is also the place Alfred began the great rally that saw him re-conquer most Wessex and laid the foundations of the nation that was to become England.

S01E02· 1994-01-23· 50m

On the Edge of an Empire - Ribchester, Lancashire

Ribchester in Lancashire has been known for some time as a site of a Roman fort. The Time Team arrive in the town to answer two questions, one is to consolidate all the previous excavations on the site, and the second to define the outline of a possible older wooden fort that is thought to have been in the area.