Time Team - Season 8 Episode 9 The Inter-City Villa - Basildon, Berkshire
While laying Brunel's Great Western Railway line 50 miles from London, navvies discovered mosaic floors indicating a Roman villa. The mosaics were broken up and the whole site ignored, until recent photographs of cropmarks showed the outline of the villa, among other features. Geophysics signals are also very strong. The trouble is, the diggers can find no structure beneath the surface. They are joined by Bernard Thomason from English Heritage, mosaics expert David Neal, Tim Allen of Oxford Archaeological Unit, and Jillian Greenaway from Reading Museum. Reconstructor Chris Owen supervises the recreation of a mosaic using thousands of tesserae.
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