Time Team · SEASON 15
Saxons on the Edge - Stonton Wyville, Leicestershire
Episode 8 · 2008-02-24
- Documentary
- Mystery
Episode overview
An unassuming field in Leicestershire provides the team with a prize that has eluded them for 15 years. In a first for the programme, Tony Robinson and the team finally uncover the rarest of archaeological finds: an Anglo Saxon settlement and, in an attempt to discover the true origin of Britain's most famous Wessex Man, Phil Harding undergoes a DNA test to establish where his ancestors came from.
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
