Time Team - Season 8 Episode 5 The Lost Viaduct - Blaenavon, Torfaen
Time Team attempt to find what is reputed to be the first railway viaduct. Built in 1790, to move coal efficiently from the mine to the Blaenavon Ironworks, one mountain over, horses drew wagons along its tracks for only about 10 years. Spoil from local mines has not only covered the viaduct, but filled the valleys so completely that it is difficult to find any clues as to where to dig. Thousands of tons of earth are moved to find the top of the viaduct, 12 meters below the modern surface. It is too dangerous to enter, but a camera is lowered for a peek. Elsewhere on the site, the remains of a manager's house and workers' cottages are found. As experimental archaeology, a small blast furnace is set up within the disused ironworks, and a Time Team logo (wooden pattern carved by Victor Ambrus) and cart wheels are cast.
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: More4, Channel 4, YouTube
Director: Tim Taylor
Cast: Gus Casely-Hayford, Natalie Haynes, Carenza Lewis, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake
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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: 16.594
Language: English
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An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Normanton, Lincolnshire
The Man Who Bought a Castle - Alderton, Northamptonshire
The Celtic Spring - Llygadwy, Powys
A Waltham Villa - Waltham Field, Whittington, Gloucestershire
The Lost Viaduct - Blaenavon, Torfaen
A Palace Sold for Scrap - Rycote, Thame, Oxfordshire
An Iron-Age Roundhouse - Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
The Bone Caves - Alveston, Gloucestershire
The Inter-City Villa - Basildon, Berkshire
Holy Island - Lindisfarne, Northumberland
The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth - Bridgnorth, Shropshire
Three Tales of Canterbury - Canterbury, Kent
The Leper Hospital - Winchester, Hampshire