Time Team · SEASON 15
Hunting King Harold - Portskewett, South Wales
Episode 13 · 2008-03-30
- Documentary
- Mystery
Episode overview
For the final episode of the 2008 series the team head to the village of Portskewett in South Wales to investigate a field which is intriguingly named Harold's Field. Local legend has it that King Harold built a hunting lodge there the year before he lost the Battle of Hastings. The field is a mass of big earthworks and historical documents do record Harold building a lodge somewhere round the village of Portskewett. Within minutes of digging, the team discover that the site was not confined to just Harold and the Saxon period, having been used since late Roman times until well into the Middle Ages.
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
