Time Team · SEASON 17

Commanding Heights - Dinmore Hill, Herefordshire

Episode 12 · 2010-11-07

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Episode overview

Tony and the Time Team climb a remote Herefordshire hill to investigate one of the biggest prehistoric sites ever featured. Was Dinmore Hill the site of a vast Iron Age hill fort? Needless to say Stewart doesn't think so. He is going with a much earlier cross-ridge dyke. To prove it one way or the other they need dateable finds. But the dig is hampered by torrential rain. Despite this they uncover a huge, magnificent ditch, which must have been dug by thousands of people during the Iron Age. The team are joined by historian Bettany Hughes, Hereford county archaeologist Keith Ray and environmental archaeologist Mike Allen.

50 minutes

Season 17 episodes

1. Corridors of Power - Westminster Abbey, London2010-04-18 2. A Saintly Site - Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides2010-04-25 3. Bridge over the River Tees - Piercebridge, County Durham2010-05-02 4. In the Halls of a Saxon King - Drayton, Oxfordshire2010-05-09 5. The Massacre in the Cellar - Hopton Castle, Shropshire2010-05-16 6. Potted History - Mildenhall, Wiltshire2010-05-23 7. Death and Dominoes: The First POW Camp - Norman Cross, Cambridgeshire2010-10-03 8. Something for the Weekend - Tregruk Castle, Llangybi, Monmouthshire2010-10-10 9. Governor's Green - Governor's Green, Portsmouth2010-10-17 10. Priory Engagement - Burford, Oxfordshire2010-10-24 11. There's a Villa Here Somewhere - Litlington, Cambridgeshire2010-10-31 12. Commanding Heights - Dinmore Hill, Herefordshire2010-11-07 13. Rooting for the Romans - Bedford Purlieus Wood, Cambridgeshire2011-04-17