Where To Stream Time Team Season 10 Episode 8
Back to Our Roots - Athelney, Somerset
- Aired February 23, 2003
- 60 Min
- Rated 10.0
- Number 59 Of 221 Rated Episodes
Time Team revisits Athelney Abbey, the hideaway of Alfred the Great, and also the very first site investigated by the team one hundred programs earlier. Ten years of technological advances in the meantime has significantly enhanced their geophysical survey methods and changes in heritage management attitudes have also given them the permission to dig at the site. Slag and magnetic readings suggest that iron and steel was smelted and worked at Athelney, the latter being a good indication of...