Time Team · SEASON 8
The Inter-City Villa - Basildon, Berkshire
Episode 9 · 2001-03-04
- Documentary
- Mystery
Episode overview
While laying Brunel's Great Western Railway line 50 miles from London, navvies discovered mosaic floors indicating a Roman villa. The mosaics were broken up and the whole site ignored, until recent photographs of cropmarks showed the outline of the villa, among other features. Geophysics signals are also very strong. The trouble is, the diggers can find no structure beneath the surface. They are joined by Bernard Thomason from English Heritage, mosaics expert David Neal, Tim Allen of Oxford Archaeological Unit, and Jillian Greenaway from Reading Museum. Reconstructor Chris Owen supervises the recreation of a mosaic using thousands of tesserae.
49 minutes
Season 8 episodes
1. An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Normanton, Lincolnshire2001-01-07
2. The Man Who Bought a Castle - Alderton, Northamptonshire2001-01-14
3. The Celtic Spring - Llygadwy, Powys2001-01-21
4. A Waltham Villa - Waltham Field, Whittington, Gloucestershire2001-01-28
5. The Lost Viaduct - Blaenavon, Torfaen2001-02-04
6. A Palace Sold for Scrap - Rycote, Thame, Oxfordshire2001-02-11
7. An Iron-Age Roundhouse - Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire2001-02-18
8. The Bone Caves - Alveston, Gloucestershire2001-02-25
9. The Inter-City Villa - Basildon, Berkshire2001-03-04
10. Holy Island - Lindisfarne, Northumberland2001-03-11
11. The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth - Bridgnorth, Shropshire2001-03-18
12. Three Tales of Canterbury - Canterbury, Kent2001-03-25
13. The Leper Hospital - Winchester, Hampshire2001-04-01
