Time Team - Season 12 Episode 9 Lost Centuries Of St Osyth - St Osyth, Essex
7th century Vikings sailed up an Essex creek. Legends tells hold they captured a nun who was offered her modesty or her mortality, chose death. The nun carried her severed head up the hill to her church and collapsed. A spring bubbled up. The nun was St Osyth, the wife of the King of Essex. The site of her death became a shrine and a settlement grew up. In the 12th century Richard de Belmais, Bishop of London, founded an Augustinian Priory in the village. It prospered until the Dissolution in 1539 and was one of the wealthiest monasteries in Europe. A few years ago a local boatbuilder noticed some decayed timbers in the mud of St Osyth Creek. The tides gradually revealed more of these timbers, which are on a significant bend in the channel. These timbers could be the remains of a medieval wharf which served the town in its early days, but they could also be the key to a much bigger mystery. The present town seems to date to the 15th century but the famous Priory is much older.
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: 12.75
Language: English
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The Manor That's Back to Front - Chenies Manor House, Buckinghamshire
The Monastery and the Mansion - Nether Poppleton, Yorkshire
The Bombers in the Marsh - Warton near Preston, Lancashire
Fighting On The Frontier - Drumlanrig, Dumfries and Galloway
A Neolithic Cathedral? - Northborough, Peterborough
In Search of Henry V's Flagship, Grace Dieu - Bursledon, Hampshire
Going Upmarket With The Romans - Standish, Gloucestershire
Picts And Hermits: Cave Dwellers Of Fife - Wemyss, Fife
Lost Centuries Of St Osyth - St Osyth, Essex
The Puzzle Of Picket's Farm - South Perrott, Dorset
Norman Neighbours - Skipsea, East Yorkshire
Tower Blocks And Togas - South Shields, Tyneside
Animal Farm - Hanslope, Milton Keynes