Time Team · SEASON 9
The Naughty Monastery - Chicksands, Bedfordshire
Episode 4 · 2002-01-27
- Documentary
- Mystery
Episode overview
The team are invited to investigate the officers' mess of a military base in Bedfordshire, once home to monks and nuns of a 14th century Gilbertine Order. It was an experiment in unisex living. Jenni of Time Team volunteers to live like a nun during the dig, and is initiated by nunnery expert Roberta Gilchrist. John Ette from English Heritage monitors proceedings, and they are also joined by historian Richard K. Morris and osteoarchaeologist Margaret Cox. Robin Bush tells the miraculous tale of the Nun of Watton.
50 minutes
Season 9 episodes
1. London's First Bridge - Vauxhall, London2002-01-06
2. The Roman's Panic - Ancaster, Lincolnshire2002-01-13
3. Diving for the Armada - Kinlochbervie, Sutherland2002-01-20
4. The Naughty Monastery - Chicksands, Bedfordshire2002-01-27
5. The Furnace in the Cellar - Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire2002-02-03
6. An Ermine Street Pub - Cheshunt, Hertfordshire2002-02-10
7. Iron-Age Market - Helford, Cornwall2002-02-17
8. Siege House in Shropshire - High Ercall, Shropshire2002-02-24
9. A Prehistoric Airfield - Throckmorton, Worcestershire2002-03-03
10. A Lost Roman City - Castleford, Yorkshire2002-03-10
11. Every Castle Needs a Lord - Beaudesert, Warwickshire2002-03-17
12. Steptoe Et Filius - Yaverland, Isle of Wight2002-03-24
13. Seven Buckets and a Buckle - Breamore, Hampshire2002-03-31
