Time Team — Season 11, episode 8 watch online
Time Team, season 11 episode 8 «Rescuing a Mesolithic Foreshore - Goldcliff, Newport»: air date February 22, 2004. Episode overview, season trailer and the cast of Time Team.
When the tide recedes at this point on the Severn estuary, rare evidence of stone age activity is uncovered. Time Team are on a three-day mission to help recover some of these relics before they are washed away. It involves excavating and painstakingly examining 15 cubic metres of muddy silt; but time is against them. The Mesolithic period is poorly understood, because these people were highly mobile hunter-gatherers who did not build permanent structures. They uncover some of the smallest artefacts they have ever handled. Phil and Brigid are fascinated by ancient footprints of adults and children, preserved in the sand. Phil excavates the massive tooth of an aurochs, an extinct giant prey animal. They are joined by Martin Bell of Reading University, Mesolithic specialists Nick Barton and Robin Crompton, and food expert Jacqui Wilson who cooks up a stone age feast.
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Episodes — Season 11
- 1 Episode 1 «In Search of the Brigittine Abbey - Syon House, London» January 4, 2004
- 2 Episode 2 «A Roman Bath House and Edwardian Folly - Whitestaunton Manor, Somerset» January 11, 2004
- 3 Episode 3 «The Crannog in the Loch - Loch Migdale, Sutherland, Scottish Highlands» January 18, 2004
- 4 Episode 4 «Saxon Burials on the Ridge - South Carlton, Lincolnshire» January 25, 2004
- 5 Episode 5 «The Roman Fort That Wasn't There - Syndale, Kent» February 1, 2004
- 6 Episode 6 «An Iron-Age Trading Centre - Green Island, Dorset» February 8, 2004
- 7 Episode 7 «A Medieval Blast Furnace - The Old Furnace, Oakamoor, Staffordshire» February 15, 2004
- 8 Episode 8 «Rescuing a Mesolithic Foreshore - Goldcliff, Newport» February 22, 2004
- 9 Episode 9 «Fertile Soils, Rich Archaeology - Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire» February 29, 2004
- 10 Episode 10 «King Cnut's Manor - Nassington, Northamptonshire» March 7, 2004
- 11 Episode 11 «Back-Garden Archaeology Revisiting a Roman villa - Ipswich, Suffolk» March 14, 2004
- 12 Episode 12 «The Lost City of Roxburgh - Roxburgh, Scottish Borders» March 21, 2004
- 13 Episode 13 «Brimming with Remains - Cranborne Chase, Dorset» March 28, 2004