S09 Episode 1

Vauxhall, London - London's First Bridge

The team are in central London near Vauxhall Bridge where, at low tide, a group of mysterious prehistoric timbers are revealed. The team have just three days to excavate just one of these strange timbers.

50 mins · Sun, 6 Jan 2002

S09 Episode 2

Ancaster, Lincolnshire - The Roman's Panic

The small Lincolnshire town of Ancaster lies on Ermine Street, which is a major Roman road heading north from London. The only Roman remains visible today are some massive earth banks and ditches, which have been dated to the 4th century. So what was here before these defences and why were they built?

50 mins · Sun, 13 Jan 2002

S09 Episode 3

Kinlochbervie, Scotland - Diving For The Armada

The team investigate a beautiful jar found amongst the seaweed at Kinlochbervie to determine whether it could have belonged to the Spanish Armada.

50 mins · Sun, 20 Jan 2002

S09 Episode 4

Chicksands, Bedfordshire - The Naughty Monastery

The team are invited to the Military Intelligence base at Chicksands to explore the site of a thirteenth-century unisex monastery.

50 mins · Sun, 27 Jan 2002

S09 Episode 5

Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire - The Furnace In The Cellar

The team digs up a pub car park near Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire to find the remains of a seventeenth-century blast furnace for smelting iron.

50 mins · Sun, 3 Feb 2002

S09 Episode 6

Cheshunt, Hertfordshire - An Ermine Street Pub

The team search for the remains of a Roman settlement in Cheshunt where Roman brick, tiles and pottery were excavated in the 1960's.

50 mins · Sun, 10 Feb 2002

S09 Episode 7

Helford, Cornwall - Iron-Age Market

The team investigate Cornwall's most important Iron Age site overlooking the Helston River. The area is so big that its purpose is a mystery. Can they solve the riddle?

50 mins · Sun, 17 Feb 2002

S09 Episode 8

High Ercall, Shropshire - Siege House In Shropshire

The team are in Shropshire at the location of one of the bloodiest Civil War sieges - the manor house in High Ercall.

50 mins · Sun, 24 Feb 2002

S09 Episode 9

Throckmorton, Worcestershire - A Prehistoric Airfield

The team explores a disused RAF bomber base, which is revealed by a government geophysics survey to be a dense Iron Age or Bronze Age settlement.

50 mins · Sun, 3 Mar 2002

S09 Episode 10

Castleford, Yorkshire - A Lost Roman City

The team are in Yorkshire to help the locals put Castleford on the Roman map by digging up a car park, a football pitch and the yard of the local British Legion.

50 mins · Sun, 10 Mar 2002

S09 Episode 11

Beaudesert, Warwickshire - Every Castle Needs A Lord

A single stone stands on a hill at Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. It's the only remnant of what was once a huge medieval castle. So where is the rest of this once-proud stronghold?

50 mins · Sun, 17 Mar 2002

S09 Episode 12

Brading, Isle of Wight - Steptoe Et Filius

The archaeological acumen of the Time Team is tested against the clock, shedding fascinating light on important aspects of Britain's past. On the east coast of the Isle of Wight where early Roman pottery and metalwork have been found, but as yet, there have been no buildings.

50 mins · Sun, 24 Mar 2002

S09 Episode 13

New Forest, Hampshire - Seven Buckets And A Buckle

Byzantine 'buckets'; Anglo-Saxon spear heads, shields and shield bosses; a disproportionate number of double burials. The cemetery that Time Team excavated for the 2001 'Live' opened an important new window onto the 'Dark Ages'.

50 mins · Sun, 31 Mar 2002

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