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Episode Guide
Castles and Cannons
Series: Time Team
Series Progress: Episode 73 of 15148% Completed
Synopsis
Tony Robinson and the Team head across the Channel to Jersey to investigate the origins of Mont Orgueil Castle: a fortress that came to symbolise the Channel Islands' bond with Britain. The massive castle that dominates the shore today is a Tudor structure built on earlier foundations, and it's that early castle, built by King John, that the Team are looking for. Unfortunately everything is built on top of a rock outcrop with the steepest sides the archaeologists have ever encountered, and they have to employ mountaineers to help get them and their equipment up the sheer slopes; it's not an excavation for the faint-hearted. As the dig continues, shadows of that original castle are discovered and a story emerges of how Mont Orgueil came to symbolise Jersey and the Channel Islands' peculiar relationship with Britain and France. It was fought over, lost and won back again for centuries, but the massive stone walls that the Team uncover ultimately proved futile against the might of gunpowder.
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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
- 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 Viewing
- 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