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Time Team - Season 8 Episode 2 The Man Who Bought a Castle - Alderton, Northamptonshire

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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.

First Air Date: Jan 16, 1994

Last Air date: Apr 07, 2024

Season: 21 Season

Episode: 239 Episode

Runtime: 50 minutes

IMDb: 7.10/10 by 14.00 users

Popularity: 14.657

Language: English