Time Team S19-E03 The Drowned Town

Tony Robinson and the Team head to Dunwich, a village that’s literally falling off the edge of the UK. Coastal erosion has eaten away most of this once-bustling settlement, and before the whole place is lost to the sea, there’s a last chance to find out more about the lost origins of this dramatically situated town. Could it even be possible to prove conclusively that it dates from Anglo-Saxon times? But the archaeologists face a huge challenge. Up around the old walls they have to dig one of the deepest trenches they’ve attempted in recent years. And on a second site by the popular beach cafe, they’re searching for an early medieval hospital. But it’s not easy to access in the gaps between the fish and chip shop, crowded car park and public toilets. Team leader Mick Aston is also desperate to understand the layout of the town’s medieval priory, and sets the geophysics experts a Herculean surveying task. And the Team don’t just concern themselves with dr