Time Team · SEASON 10
Death in a Crescent - Bath, Somerset
Episode 7 · 2003-02-16
- Documentary
- Mystery
Episode overview
Time Team visit Bath to investigate parch marks seen in the park lawn of the Royal Crescent, indicating the presence of a large Roman road, possibly local remains of the Fosse Way. They also look behind the Crescent for Roman sarcophagi and wall lines found by builders of the now-gone St. Andrew's Church in the 1870s and noted by an antiquarian at the time. While the road ditches eventually yield Roman burials, the team does not locate any sarcophagi said to have been found there. Whether or not the large road, in fact, is the Fosse Way remains in the end uncertain, with arguments for both sides.
50 minutes
Season 10 episodes
1. Garden Secrets - Raunds, Northamptonshire2003-01-05
2. Mosaics, Mosaics, Mosaics - Dinnington, Somerset2003-01-12
3. Peak District Practices - Carsington, Derbyshire2003-01-19
4. The Giant's Grave - Fetlar, Shetland2003-01-26
5. Joust Dig It - Greenwich, London2003-02-02
6. Digging Liberty - Merton, London2003-02-09
7. Death in a Crescent - Bath, Somerset2003-02-16
8. Back to Our Roots - Athelney, Somerset2003-02-23
9. Looking for the White House - Kew Gardens, London2003-03-02
10. Rescuing the Dead - Leven, Fife2003-03-02
11. Not a Blot on the Landscape - Castle Howard, Yorkshire2003-03-16
12. A View to a Kiln - Sedgefield, County Durham2003-03-16
13. Jailhouse Rocks - Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria2003-03-30
