Time Team · SEASON 15
Bodies in the Dunes - Barra, Western Isles
Episode 3 · 2008-01-20
- Documentary
- Mystery
Episode overview
The Team travel to the windswept island of Barra, 50 miles off the west coast of Scotland, for a unique rescue dig. This Hebridean outpost is famous for its strip of unusually fertile sand dunes all round the coast, land that has been home to settlers for the last 4,000 years. When a storm ripped apart one of the dunes, it revealed Bronze Age graves and the remains of ancient houses. The team must also work in the face of the fierce Barra winds to preserve a collection of Iron Age ornaments before they become lost forever, including the remains of a cooking pot, and tools crafted from animal bones and whale rib.
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
