Time Team - Season 15 - Eps 4: The Naughty Nuns of Northampton - Towcester, Northamptonshire
A Northampton family, the Colecloughs live on the site of a 900-year old nunnery with a rather fruity past, which was at various times accused of witchcraft, begging and debauchery. The burial of a much loved family pet provides the curious starting point for an investigation. When eight-year-old Amy Coleclough's cat "Paintpot" died and her father dug a grave, he uncovered a large old wall. So Tony and the team dig up their garden, including a mysterious sarcophagi hidden there.
About Time Team
Title: Time Team
First Air Date: 1994-01-16
Last Air Date: 2025-05-20
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.1/10 (from 14 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 22
Total Episodes: 246
Network: More4 Channel 4 YouTube
Genres: Documentary, Mystery
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Time Team is a British television series which has been aired on British Channel 4 from 1994. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in layman's terms. This team of specialists changed throughout the series' run, although has consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding. The sites excavated over the show's run have ranged in date from the Palaeolithic right through to the Second World War.
Cast
Gus Casely-Hayford
Self - Presenter
Natalie Haynes
Self - Presenter
Carenza Lewis
Self - Field Archaeologist
John Gater
Self - Geophysicist
Stewart Ainsworth
Self - Landscape Investigator
Helen Geake
Self - Anglo-Saxon Specialist
Matt Williams
Self - Field Archaeologist
Derek Pitman
Self - Archaeologist
Lawrence Shaw
Self - Archaeologist