EPISODECHCommanding Heights2010
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Commanding Heights
From Time Team
A 60-minute family episode from Time Team, Season 17, Episode 12.
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Series Progress: Episode 55 of 15136% Completed
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Tony Robinson and the Team climb a remote Herefordshire hill to investigate one of the biggest prehistoric sites ever featured on Time Team . Aerial photographs and dogged local investigation suggest Dinmore Hill may have been a vast Iron Age hill fort. Can the diggers find the evidence to confirm this important discovery? With the site covering 40 acres, the Team expect no shortage of targets to dig, but a frustrated geophys team can't find a single satisfactory target. Undaunted, the Team dig a 40-metre trench to try to find the immense defensive ditch that was believed to surround the site. And then the rain starts. While the trenches are shut in case they collapse, the archaeologists try to understand the monument, and disagree about the purpose and date of the prehistoric archaeology. As the tired team conclude a gruelling three-day dig, they manage to complete the jigsaw, and unveil an unusual site that dominated the landscape for over 1,000 years and was the ultimate statement of power and status.
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How long is Commanding Heights?
Commanding Heights runs for 1h for this episode.
What language is it available in?
The primary language listed for this title is English.
What kind of episode is this?
It is tagged under family, history, documentary.
How big is the series commitment?
This series currently shows 151 episodes across 15 seasons.
Series Binge Profile
Total Content Density: 149 hours 50 minutes (151 episodes)
Intensity Rating: Epic Binge A massive saga. Set aside dedicated weekends for this run.
Binge Milestones
1 episode/day: 151 days
3 episodes/day: 51 days
5 episodes/day: 31 days
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 Viewing
- 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
- 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
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