Where To Stream Time Team Season 7 Episode 8
The Royalists' Last Stand - Basing House, Hampshire
- Aired February 20, 2000
- 60 Min
- Rated 9.5
- Number 182 Of 221 Rated Episodes
Basing House in Hampshire, owned by the Paulet family was once one of the largest private homes in Britain until besieged and destroyed in the English Civil War. Most of the ruins are a Protected Ancient Monument, but Time Team is permitted to dig on the edge of where the Basingstoke Canal once cut through the ruins, and they find evidence of the final assault in 1645. Meanwhile, in a field across the road, it appears that Charles Paulet built a hunting lodge around 1690, but the field is the...