Blythburgh, Suffolk - Skeletons in the Shed

March 29, 2009

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Time Team - S16 - E13

Tony Robinson and the Team travel to the picturesque expanses of the Suffolk coast to investigate a very special back garden. When the new owners of a house in Blythburgh explored their potting shed they were shocked to discover a cupboard full of human skulls.

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Time Team: Season 16 - 13 Episode s

16x1 - Friars Wash, Hertfordshire - The Trouble with Temples
January 4, 2009
Tony Robinson and the Team are back with a new series and they make an amazing discovery in a Hertfordshire field when they unearth a complex of Roman temples.
16x2 - Scargill Castle, County Durham
January 11, 2009
The Team pieces together the history and the layout of a very special wedding present – Scargill Castle, in the remote wilds of County Durham.
16x3 - Heroes' Hill, Knockdhu, Co Antrim
January 18, 2009
Working with archaeologists from Queen's University in Belfast, the Team takes up the challenge to unlock the prehistoric secrets of the headland at Knockdhu, County Antrim.
16x4 - Caerwent, South Wales - Toga Town
January 25, 2009
Caerwent is the best-preserved Roman town in Britain. Laid out on a grid pattern, it has 20 blocks within its walls, which still stand at heights of up to five metres in places. Previous excavations have uncovered roads, temples, shops, baths, houses and villas, as well as the forum and basilica, the town's political centre.
16x5 - Rise Hill, Cumbria - Blood, Sweat and Beers
February 1, 2009
Time Team visits the Yorkshire Dales to investigate the Risehill camp settlement, inhabited by the Victorian railway navvies during the construction of the Settle-to-Carlisle railway On a wind- and rain-swept Yorkshire moor – 'the most exposed site Time Team has ever dug on,' according to Tony Robinson – lie the remains of a settlement built by a tough, nomadic community that existed on the very edge of society.
16x6 - Salisbury Cathedral - Buried Bishops and Belfries
February 8, 2009
Time Team gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dig in the hallowed grounds of Salisbury Cathedral – in Phil Harding's home town In 2008, Salisbury marked the 750th anniversary of the consecration of its cathedral. At the end of September the city played host to Time Team, who had been given the unique opportunity to investigate some of the lost architectural treasures of this magnificent building.
16x7 - Radcot, Oxfordshire - Anarchy in the UK
February 15, 2009
The Team are in Radcot, Oxfordshire, where they hope to uncover a long-lost fortress built in the 12th century during one of the bloodiest episodes of English history. The tiny hamlet of Radcot in Oxfordshire stands on a strategic crossing on the river Thames. Competing armies have fought over control of the crossing from at least medieval times through to the English Civil War.
16x8 - Colworth, Bedfordshire - Mystery of the Ice Cream Villa
February 22, 2009
The Team are invited to investigate a Bedfordshire field by a group of amateur archaeologists who have found countless pieces of Roman pottery, coins and building material over the years. In a field next to a science park in Colworth, Bedfordshire, a group of amateur archaeologists have turned up a huge collection of material dating back almost 2,000 years.
16x9 - Looe, Cornwall - Hermit Harbour
March 1, 2009
Legend says that tiny Looe Island in Cornwall was once visited by Jesus Christ. Could it be one of the earliest Christian sites in the country? Legend has it that Jesus Christ himself played on the pebble beach at Looe Island (also known as St George's Island), about one mile off the south Cornwall coast near Looe. It is a story that probably originated when the island was being established as a place of pilgrimage to rival St Michael's Mount further to the southwest.
16x10 - Lincoln's Inn, London - Called to the Bar
March 8, 2009
The Team visits Lincoln's Inn, London where they have been asked to investigate the remains of a 13th-century palace that belonged to Henry III's Lord Chancellor There were only a few areas within Lincoln's Inn where any excavation could take place. As well as it not being possible to dig under the other historic buildings, a huge London plane tree precluded any excavation that would threaten its root system.
16x11 - Warboys, The Fens, Cambridgeshire - Beacon on the Fens
March 15, 2009
Time Team visits the cold and windswept Chapel Head, in the Cambridgeshire Fens, to see if a medieval chapel did once stand there Over the years, farmers working the fields have found large quantities of worked stone, medieval tiles and even two shelly limestone columns, adding credence to the local belief that a medieval chapel once stood here.
16x12 - Ulnaby, County Durham - The Hollow Way
March 22, 2009
Time Team sets out to unearth the secrets of the deserted medieval village of Ulnaby in Durham The Team's challenge was to tell the story of a whole lost village – a once-thriving rural world
16x13 - Blythburgh, Suffolk - Skeletons in the Shed
March 29, 2009
Tony Robinson and the Team travel to the picturesque expanses of the Suffolk coast to investigate a very special back garden. When the new owners of a house in Blythburgh explored their potting shed they were shocked to discover a cupboard full of human skulls.

Blythburgh, Suffolk - Skeletons in the Shed

Time Team - S16 - E13

Time Team: Season 16 - 13 Episode s

16x1 - Friars Wash, Hertfordshire - The Trouble with Temples

16x2 - Scargill Castle, County Durham

16x3 - Heroes' Hill, Knockdhu, Co Antrim

16x4 - Caerwent, South Wales - Toga Town

16x5 - Rise Hill, Cumbria - Blood, Sweat and Beers

16x6 - Salisbury Cathedral - Buried Bishops and Belfries

16x7 - Radcot, Oxfordshire - Anarchy in the UK

16x8 - Colworth, Bedfordshire - Mystery of the Ice Cream Villa

16x9 - Looe, Cornwall - Hermit Harbour

16x10 - Lincoln's Inn, London - Called to the Bar

16x11 - Warboys, The Fens, Cambridgeshire - Beacon on the Fens

16x12 - Ulnaby, County Durham - The Hollow Way

16x13 - Blythburgh, Suffolk - Skeletons in the Shed

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