Time Team · SEASON 0
Return to The Princely Burial: The Sword in the Stones?
Episode 77 · 2026-01-31
- Documentary
- Mystery
Episode overview
In the last hour, on the last day of a dig investigating an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Gloucesterhire, a metal detectorist discovered a mystery iron object in a wooden casing. With no time to investigate, the team has no choice but to leave it in the ground and return another day. Speculation was rife - could they have found a sword and a Saxon warrior’s burial? This is the story of that return visit, when the team headed back to site with one clear mission - locate and identify the iron object. But as is often the way with archaeology, it wasn’t that simple. From the off, things weren’t quite what they seemed. The team encountered many challenges and unexpected plot twists over a wet and wild weekend. And only after a lot of head scratching and painstaking excavation, were they able to finally make sense of the object and piece together its story. And that story was so much more exciting than they had dared hope!
50 minutes
Season 0 episodes
1. Christmas Special – Much Wenlock - Much Wenlock, Shropshire1997-12-28
2. Christmas Special – Barley Hall - Barley Hall, York1999-12-19
3. The Mystery of Seahenge - Holme-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk1999-12-29
4. The Real King Arthur - Tintagel Castle, Cornwall2000-12-24
5. The Mystery of Mine Howe - Tankerness, Orkney2000-12-27
6. Time Team History Of Britain2000-12-27
7. Behind The Scenes At Time Team2001-01-07
8. Coventry’s Lost Cathedral - Coventry, West Midlands2001-03-08
9. The Island of the Eels - Ely, Cambridgeshire2001-05-17
10. Dinosaur Hunting - Dinosaur Belt, Montana, USA2001-12-30
11. The Big Dig in Canterbury - Canterbury, Kent2002-04-15
12. Londinium, The Edge of an Empire - London2002-04-22
13. The Wreck of the Colossus - St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly2002-10-31
14. Ten Years of Time Team2002-12-27
15. Hadrian's Well2003-04-10
16. Big Dig, The Hole Story - Canterbury, Kent2003-12-29
17. Sheffield Steel City - Sheffield, South Yorkshire2004-03-22
18. The Crannog in the Loch - Loch Tay, Perthshire, Scotland2004-04-19
19. The Ten Million Pound House - Ightham Mote, Kent2004-05-03
20. D-Day - Normandy2004-05-31
21. King of Bling - Prittlewell, Essex2005-06-13
22. Britain’s Lost Roman Circus - Colchester, Essex2005-06-20
23. Life on the Edge 1000 Years BC - Washingborough, Lincoln2005-06-27
24. Journey to Stonehenge - Durrington, Wiltshire2005-11-28
25. The Big Roman Villa - Dinnington, Somerset2006-01-08
26. Buried by the Blitz - Shoreditch Park, London2006-10-29
27. Big Royal Dig - Windsor Castle, Palace of Holyroodhouse and Buckingham Palace2006-12-31
28. The God of Gothic - Ramsgate, Kent2007-03-01
29. Britain's Drowned World2007-04-24
30. Jamestown, America’s Birthplace - Virginia, USA2007-05-01
31. Secrets of the Stately Garden - Prior Park2007-08-27
32. Codename: Ainsbrook - Thirsk, Yorkshire2008-01-14
33. The Real Knights of the Round Table - Windsor Castle, Berkshire2008-02-25
34. The Lost Dock of Liverpool - Liverpool, Merseyside2008-04-21
35. Swords, Skulls and Strongholds2008-05-19
36. The Lost World War I Bunker - Flanders, Belgium2008-11-10
37. The Mystery of the Roman Treasure2008-12-26
38. Henry VIII’s Lost Palaces - England2009-04-13
39. The Secrets of Stonehenge - Stonehenge, Wiltshire2009-06-01
40. Dover Castle - Dover, Kent2009-12-19
41. Nelson’s Hospital - Gosport, Hampshire2010-05-17
42. The Secrets of Westminster Abbey - Westminster Abbey, London2010-06-28
43. The Real Vikings2010-10-11
44. War of the Roses - Bosworth, Leicestershire2011-03-16
45. The Somme’s Secret Weapon - Mametz, Somme, France2011-04-14
46. Castle of the Saxon Kings - Bamburgh, Northumberland2011-04-24
47. Looking Underground2011-05-01
48. Boudica's Lost Tribe2011-05-04
49. The Way We Lived2011-05-08
50. Brunel's Last Launch2011-11-10
51. Searching for Shakespeare’s House - Stratford-upon-Avon2012-03-11
52. Secrets of the Saxon Gold2012-04-22
53. Rediscovering Ancient Britain - Ridgeway, Dorset2012-04-29
54. Britain’s Stone Age Tsunami2013-05-30
55. The Secret of Lincoln Jail2013-06-30
56. Lost Submarines of WWI2013-07-07
57. 1066: The Lost Battlefield - Battle, East Sussex, England2013-12-01
58. The Madness of Bedlam - Bishopsgate, City of London2013-12-01
59. The Edwardian Grand Designer - Drewsteignton, Devon.2014-02-23
60. Britain’s Bronze Age Mummies - Low Hauxley, Northumberland, England2014-03-02
61. Secrets of the Body Snatchers2014-08-31
62. The Boats That Made Britain - Dover, Kent2014-09-07
63. Expedition Crew: Return to the Roman Sarcophagus (Day 1)2022-12-22
64. Expedition Crew: Return to the Roman Sarcophagus (Day 2)2022-12-23
65. Expedition Crew: Hidden City (Vlochos, Greece) Part 12023-04-01
66. Expedition Crew: Hidden City (Vlochos, Greece) Part 22023-04-02
67. Expedition Crew: Mortar Wreck2023-06-10
68. Digging Band of Brothers - Aldbourne, Wiltshire2023-09-30
69. Forest to Front Line | Time Team (Sherwood Pines) 2024 - Expedition Crew2024-07-28
70. The Archaeology of Operation Cobra (Normandy)2024-07-29
71. The Princely Burial2024-12-21
72. Mystery Mounds at Poverty Point2025-02-22
73. The Mystery of the Standing Stone | Time Team X Crew2025-03-22
74. Bringing Home Little Boy Blue2025-08-02
75. Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant (Dorset)2025-11-09
76. The Big Ancient Greek Dig | Time Team X Crew (Vlochos)2025-12-20
77. Return to The Princely Burial: The Sword in the Stones?2026-01-31
78. Broughton Castle: Secrets Within The Walls2026-04-25
79. The Ness of Brodgar: Uncovering the Heart of Neolithic Orkney2026-07-18
200. York2000-03-26
201. The Bone Caves - Alveston, Gloucestershire2001-03-01
