Episode Guide
The Massacre in the Cellar
Series: Time Team
Synopsis
Tony Robinson and the Team visit the remains of Hopton Castle in Shropshire. Although it's picturesque, it was the site of a series of gruesome battles that took place at height of the English Civil War, when a Royalist force laid siege to a small garrison of Parliamentarians inside the castle. The Team use contemporary accounts and the evidence from their own trenches to separate fact from propaganda and piece together a blow-by-blow account of these violent days in 1644. The dig immediately produces evidence of battle. Over three days the archaeology begins to build up a compelling story of how the defenders fought off two attacks, killing hundreds of Royalists, before finally succumbing to the greater numbers of their enemy. Plus the Team have one other shocking target: the place where the surrendered Parliamentarians were massacred. Accounts suggest they had their hands cut off and were drowned in a ditch or a water-filled cellar, so the geophysics team set off in search of likely candidates. There's A Time Team Special about Nelson's hospital on Channel 4 tomorrow evening.
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Total Content Density: 149 hours 50 minutes (151 episodes)
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Episodes (151)
- - London
- - Llangrose
- - Cornwall
- - Donegal
- - Winterbourne Gunner
- - Ribchester
- - Oxford
- - Sunderland
- - Teigenmouth
- - Ulster
- - Boleigh, Cornwall
- - Wedmore
- - Llygadwy
- - Lambeth Palace, London
- - The Forgotten Gunners of WWI
- - Wedmore
- - Island of Eels
- - Brancaster, Norfolk
- - Wierre Effroy
- - Braemore
- - Winterbourne Gunner, Wiltshire
- - Athelney, Somerset
- - Much Wenlock, Shropshire
- - Ribchester, Lancashire
- - Chapel Hill, East Anglia
- S01E01 - The Guerrilla Base of the King
- S01E02 - On the Edge of an Empire
- S01E03 - The New Town of a Norman Prince
- S01E04 - The Fortress in the Lake
- S10E01 - Garden Secrets
- S10E10 - Rescuing the Dead
- S10E11 - Not a Blot on the Landscape
- S10E12 - A View to a Kiln
- S10E02 - Mosaics, Mosaics, Mosaics
- S10E03 - Peak District Practices
- S10E04 - The Giant's Grave
- S10E05 - Joust Dig It
- S10E07 - Death in a Crescent
- S10E08 - Back to Our Roots
- S10E09 - Looking for the White House
- S11E10 - King Cnut's Manor
- S11E11 - Back-Garden Archaeology - Revisiting a Roman Villa
- S11E12 - The Lost City of Roxburgh
- S11E13 - Brimming With Remains
- S11E03 - The Crannog in the Loch
- S11E04 - Saxon Burials on the Bridge
- S11E05 - The Roman Fort That Wasn't There
- S11E06 - The Island of Finds
- S11E07 - A Medieval Blast Furnace
- S11E08 - Rescuing a Mesolithic Foreshore
- S11E09 - Fertile Soils, Rich Archaeology
- S17E01 - Corridors of Power: Westminster Abbey
- S17E10 - Priory Engagement
- S17E11 - There's a Villa Here Somewhere
- S17E12 - Commanding Heights
- S17E13 - Rooting for the Romans
- S17E02 - A Saintly Site
- S17E03 - Bridge over the River Trees
- S17E04 - In the Halls of a Saxon King
- S17E05 - The Massacre in the Cellar Viewing
- S17E06 - Potted History
- S17E07 - Death and Dominoes: The First POW Camp
- S17E08 - Something for the Weekend
- S17E09 - Governor's Green
- S18E01 - Reservoir Rituals
- S18E10 - Search for the Domesday Mill
- S18E02 - Saxon Death, Saxon Gold
- S18E03 - Romans On The Range
- S18E04 - Hitler's Island Fortress
- S18E05 - The Furnace in the Forest
- S18E06 - Under the Gravestones
- S18E07 - House of the White Queen
- S18E08 - Castles and Cannons
- S18E09 - Mystery of the Manor Moat
- S19E01 - Dig by Wire
- S19E10 - How to Lose a Castle
- S19E11 - King John's Lost Palace
- S19E02 - A Village Affair
- S19E03 - The Drowned Town
- S19E04 - The First King of Racing
- S19E05 - Chapel of Secrets
- S19E06 - A Copper Bottomed Dig
- S19E07 - The Only Earl Is Essex
- S19E08 - Secrets of the Dunes
- S19E09 - Rome's Wild West
- S02E01 - Lord of the Isles
- S02E02 - The Saxon Graves
- S02E03 - The Lost Villa
- S02E04 - The Archbishop's Back Garden
- S02E05 - Medieval Dining Hall
- S20E01 - The Forgotten Gunners of WWI
- S20E10 - Wolsey's Lost Palace
- S20E11 - An Englishman's Castle
- S20E02 - Brancaster
- S20E03 - A Capital Hill
- S20E04 - Henham's Lost Mansions
- S20E05 - Warriors
- S20E06 - Lost Mines of Lakeland
- S20E07 - Horseshoe Hall
- S20E08 - Mystery of the Thames-side Villa
- S20E09 - The Lost Castle of Dundrum
- S03E02 - Hunting for Mammoth
- S03E03 - Village of the Templars
- S03E04 - A Wreck of the Spanish Armada
- S03E05 - Palace of the Irish Kings
- S03E06 - Treasures of the Roman Field
- S04E01 - St Mary's City, Maryland, USA
- S04E02 - Launceston, Cornwall
- S04E03 - Soho, Birmingham
- S04E04 - Govan, Glasgow
- S04E05 - Malton, North Yorkshire
- S04E06 - Netheravon, Wiltshire
- S05E04 - Turkdean, Gloucestershire
- S05E08 - High Worsall, North Yorkshire
- S06E12 - Nevis Island, West Indies Part 1
- S06E09 - Turkdean, Gloucestershire - Revisited
- S07E01 - A Muslim Port in Spain
- S07E10 - In Search of the Palace King Offa
- S07E11 - A Roman Temple in Sight of the Millenium Dome
- S07E12 - Nuns in Northumbria
- S07E13 - York
- S07E02 - The Mosaic at the Bottom of the Garden
- S07E03 - One of the First Spitfires Lost in France
- S07E04 - An Iron-Age Roundhouse and a Henge
- S07E05 - Hadrian's Wall
- S07E06 - In Search of the Earliest Traces of Mankind
- S07E07 - The Missing Cathedral and the Diabetic Prior
- S07E08 - The Royalists' Last Stand
- S07E09 - A Bronze-Age Barrow and Walkway
- S08E01 - An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery in Lincolnshire
- S08E10 - Holy Island
- S08E11 - The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth
- S08E12 - Three Tales of Canterbury
- S08E13 - The Leper Hospital
- S08E02 - The Man Who Bought a Castle
- S08E03 - The Celtic Spring
- S08E04 - A Waltham Villa
- S08E05 - The Lost Viaduct
- S08E06 - A Palace Sold for Scrap
- S08E08 - The Bone Caves
- S09E01 - London's First Bridge
- S09E11 - Every Castle Needs a Lord
- S09E13 - Seven Buckets and a Buckle
- S09E02 - The Romans' Panic
- S09E03 - Diving for the Armada
- S09E04 - The Naughty Monastery
- S09E05 - The Furnace in the Cellar
- S09E06 - An Ermine Street Pub
- S09E07 - Iron-Age Market
- S09E08 - Siege House in Shropshire
- S09E09 - A Prehistoric Airfield
