The Unofficial Website for Tony Robinson

Time Team: Series 16, 2008 - Click on the links below for the different programmes.
The Trouble with Temples - Friars Wash
The Wedding Present - Scargill Castle
Heroes' Hill - Knockdhu
Toga Town - Caerwent
Blood, Sweat and Beers - Risehill
Buried Bishops and Belfries - Salisbury
Anarchy in the UK - Radcot
Mystery of the Ice Cream Villa - Colworth
Hermit Harbour - Looe
Called to the Bar - Lincoln's Inn
Beacon of the Fens - Warboys
The Hollow Way - Ulnaby
Skeletons in the Shed - Blythburgh

Beacon of the Fens - Warboys

In tonights show, Tony and the Team brave freezing weather to explore Chapel Hill on the windswept expanse of the East Anglian Fens.

Flint axes and ornately carved stone blocks discovered by the landowners suggest a religious building or prehistoric monument once stood on this small Cambridgeshire outcrop.
Other theories about the location's history include a Bronze Age burial ground and a lighthouse.

However, the first day of the dig produces evidence that the site is even older than the archaeologists expected.
Set in this flat and very drafty part of the Fens, this little mound of earth has intrigued archaeologists for years.

The Team had just 3 days to investigate....
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