Time Team: Series 14, 2007 - Click on the links below for the different programmes
Isle of Man - Finds on the Fairway Blacklands - There's no place like Rome Hooke Court - School Diggers Anglesey - The Druid's Last Stand Shorncliffe - Sharpe's Redoubt Stilton - A Port and Stilton Wicken - A Tale of Two Villages		Warburton - No stone unturned... Dotton - The Domesday Mill Chesham Bois - The Cheyne Gang Godstone - Road to the Relics Poulton - The Abbey Habit Bodmin Moor - In the shadow of the Tor
Wicken - A Tale of Two Villages The village of Wicken in Northamptonshire was created in 1587 by the joining of two separate villages, each with their own church. Until this time, the villages were known independently as Wick Hamon and Wick Dive. Wick Dive became the wealthier of the two villages with its manor house and restored church, and perhaps may always have been. Recent excavation has identified a wealth of Anglo Saxon pottery, associated with a settlement predating the planned village. Wick Hamon lost its church in 1619, after it had fallen into disrepair and was pulled down, and appears to never have had a manor house. However, a project run by Leicester University has been studying the close relationship between the two villages, and new discoveries have made the ties between these neighbouring villages even more intriguing. As usual, Time Team have just 3 days…
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