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Time Team Documentaries - Season 14

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Unearthing the past

Time Team – Britain’s Drowned World - 1 x 76’. Until 8,000 years ago Britain was part of the European continent. The ice melted and the seas rose for several thousand years, shrinking the land that joined Britain to The Netherlands and Denmark. Time Team piece together the story of Britain's drowned world: the land, far bigger than England is today, lost when the North Sea and the English Channel were formed in a huge, 10,000-year flood. Travelling around the coasts, the Team discover vast mammoth bones, tiger teeth and lion jaws, as well as human skulls, fine worked tools and even a hunter-gatherer campsite. Time Team – Jamestown: America’s Birthplace - 1 x 50’. Established on a small island in Virginia in1607, Jamestown thrived with commercial enterprise and is recognised as the birthplace of the United States. As well as bringing the English language to America, the Jamestown colonists also brought the English legal and political system. But this 400th anniversary Time Team Special is far more than just an excavation of the original site. From a painstaking trawl of archives in East Anglia, the names and life stories of these first pioneers emerge. Time Team – Secrets Of The Stately Garden - 1 x 50’ In this Time Team Special, Tony Robinson follows an ambitious two-year restoration of Prior Park garden near Bath, and also embarks on a journey through time to decode the secrets of England's Stately Gardens. In the process he visits extraordinary grottos and fanciful follies, and uncovers sexy secrets concealed in apparently classical designs. And on his own Grand Tour Tony travels to the breathtaking Hadrian's garden, near Rome, the inspiration for so much we see in the traditional English garden.

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