Time Team · SEASON 15
From Constantinople To Cornwall - Padstow, North Cornwall
Episode 10 · 2008-03-09
- Documentary
- Mystery
Episode overview
Cornwall is probably not the first place that springs to mind when thinking about the Roman and Byzantine Empires but in a field overlooking a cove, just a mile down river from the famous Cornish village of Padstow, locals have picked up a wealth of 1,500-year-old pottery and metalwork from as far away as North Africa and Turkey. Geophysics results suggest an Iron Age village may have once been located on the site, but archaeologists think the cove may have also been a port for Mediterranean traders. The team dig for evidence which will support the theory, and after three days of work and initial difficulties, they believe they know how the site looked in its prime.
50 minutes
Season 15 episodes
1. Gold in the Moat - Codnor Castle, Derbyshire2008-01-06
2. Street of the Dead - Binchester, County Durham2008-01-13
3. Bodies in the Dunes - Barra, Western Isles2008-01-20
4. The Naughty Nuns of Northampton - Towcester, Northamptonshire2008-01-27
5. Mysteries of the Mosaic - Coberley, Gloucestershire2008-02-03
6. Blitzkreig on Shooter’s Hill - South London2008-02-10
7. Keeping Up with the Georgians - Hunstrete, Somerset2008-02-17
8. Saxons on the Edge - Stonton Wyville, Leicestershire2008-02-24
9. Fort of the Earls - Dungannon, Northern Ireland2008-03-02
10. From Constantinople To Cornwall - Padstow, North Cornwall2008-03-09
11. Five Thousand Tons of Stone - Hamsterley, County Durham2008-03-16
12. The Romans Recycle - Wickenby, Lincolnshire2008-03-23
13. Hunting King Harold - Portskewett, South Wales2008-03-30
