Time Team · SEASON 9
The Furnace in the Cellar - Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire
Episode 5 · 2002-02-03
- Documentary
- Mystery
Episode overview
The team head for a pub in Leighton, whose cellar contains the remains of a blast furnace once used for smelting iron. When Tony arrives, test pits are already being dug, and Geophysics are busy surveying the car park. They are joined by Paul Belford from Ironbrige Gorge Museum; and Jonathan Roberts shows Phil how to make a triangular charcoal clamp similar to those used in the 17th century. Mick visits the nearby Blists Hill Victorian Town, where Roger Fewtrell demonstrates making a 24 pound cannonball. They are also joined by researcher Colin Thom, industrial archaeologist Rob Kinchin-Smith, archaeometallurgist Gerry McDonnell, and finds expert Ceinwen Paynton.
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
