The Team face one of their strangest challenges ever: digging through a church graveyard in search of what could be one of the largest Roman structures ever built in Britain.
Tony Robinson and his band are here at the request of the Reverend William Burke, vicar of the historic St Kyneburgha's church in Castor, Cambridgeshire.
Under very close supervision, the Team must dodge the thousands of burials in the graveyard to get to an ornate mosaic floor that was reportedly discovered almost 200 years ago.
It could be the missing link in a village that is crammed with massive Roman walls and old reports of exquisite finds. Could they all belong to one vast building, dubbed a Praetorium, that would have dominated the Roman skyline and the whole region?
Time Team fan out through the village to dig up gardens and playing fields and locate the different pieces of the jigsaw. Can the Team reach the mosaic under the burials, and convince the sceptics that they've found a building the size of a Roman palace?
29 авг 2024