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Temporada 17 · Capítulo 4 · 2010-05-09

Time Team Temporada 17 Capítulo 4: In the Halls of a Saxon King - Drayton, Oxfordshire – Ver Online

In the Halls of a Saxon King - Drayton, Oxfordshire

In Sutton Courtenay Tony Robinson and the Team investigate a set of buildings once occupied by Anglo Saxon royalty. It's the rarest of archaeological sites and uncovers the biggest Saxon building ever discovered in Britain. Aerial photography of an apparently featureless Oxfordshire field revealed crop marks that suggested to archaeologists it was once the site of an impressive collection of 1,400-year-old buildings; but Time Team's digging expertise was needed to verify this. The trenches are big and the archaeology complicated but slowly the Team begin to build up a picture of life here over 1,000 years ago, with the help of heroic Saxon poetry. As well as stunning finds and the perplexing