Time Team - Season 10 Episode 10 Rescuing the Dead - Leven, Fife
A building development threatens a Bronze Age cemetery in Fife, and Time Team is there to carry out rescue excavations together with County Archaeologists. The graves are Cist burials in various states of preservation placed around a large boulder in a dug pit. The boulder is shown to cover another cist, and several of the burials contain in fact bones – not a certainty, given the acidity of the local soil – and grave goods. With skulls initially being found as the only form of human remains, the archaeologists wonder whether the site only contained skulls originally. The boulder cist is capped by a large stone slab covering a void beneath, and the logistics of lifting it prove a challenge. In the end, they uncover a chamber with skeletal remains, thus showing soil acidity to be the main culprit for the dearth of bones other than skulls in the other graves.
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: More4, Channel 4, YouTube
Director: Tim Taylor
Cast: Gus Casely-Hayford, Natalie Haynes, Carenza Lewis, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake
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First Air Date: Jan 16, 1994
Last Air date: Apr 07, 2024
Season: 21 Season
Episode: 239 Episode
Runtime: 50 minutes
IMDb: 7.10/10 by 14.00 users
Popularity: 18.967
Language: English
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Mosaics, Mosaics, Mosaics - Dinnington, Somerset
Peak District Practices - Carsington, Derbyshire
The Giant's Grave - Fetlar, Shetland
Joust Dig It - Greenwich, London
Digging Liberty - Merton, London
Death in a Crescent - Bath, Somerset
Back to Our Roots - Athelney, Somerset
Looking for the White House - Kew Gardens, London
Rescuing the Dead - Leven, Fife
Not a Blot on the Landscape - Castle Howard, Yorkshire
A View to a Kiln - Sedgefield, County Durham
Jailhouse Rocks - Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria