| S4 History |
Last
update -
27 September 2011 |
Official European
School History 4-5 Syllabus:
English,
French,
German. |
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Term 1 - Medieval Time Team |
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Time Team is a popular British archaeology programme which sets out to excavate historically significant
sites in just three days. The following episodes all
involve the team in excavations of medieval historical sites.
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| Athelney -
Series 1 Broadcast January 1994 |
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Athelney lies in the
Somerset Levels, about 16 kilometres (10
miles) from the county town of Taunton,
and was the location for the first Time
Team programme. In the ninth century it
was an island deep within marshland and
Alfred the Great, King of Wessex from
871 to 899, took refuge there in 878 at
the lowest ebb of his reign: the Vikings
had conquered Northumbria, East Anglia
and Mercia, and killed their kings and
Alfred's kingdom had shrunk to a few
acres around Athelney.
He
emerged to defeat the Viking army at the
battle of Edington, and the Morgan
family, who farm in the area, set the
Team the task of locating the site of
his fort, and the abbey he built on the
island to celebrate his decisive
victory. Despite the importance of the
site very little archaeological work had
been carried out there in the past.
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| Much Wenlock
- Series 1 Broadcast January 1994 |
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Much Wenlock in
Shropshire is a small market town close
to the Welsh Borders. It became an
important religious centre in the
seventh century when St Mildburga
founded a convent there, and the site of
her building remained a monastic
precinct for more than 400 years - the
remains of an eleventh-century Ciuniac
priory are still visible.
But when did Much
Wenlock become a bustling medieval town?
Gerry Bowden asked Time Team to
investigate foundations in his garden
that might be linked with this
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| Templecombe -
Series 3 Broadcast January 1996 |
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The Knights Templar were
among the most famous crusaders in
medieval Europe, warrior-monks whose
order was founded in the twelfth century
to defend the Holy Sepulchre in
Jerusalem and protect pilgrims to the
Holy Land from bandits. Templecombe in
Somerset was one of their preceptories,
where they lived and owned land, and
Templecombe manor house and farm are
traditionally believed to contain its
remains. Geoff Wilson, the owner,
invited Time Team to investigate.
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Coventry Cathedral - Series 7
Broadcast February 2000 |
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Coventry is in the West Midlands
of England about 24 kilometres (15 miles) east
of Birmingham. At its centre stands the new
cathedral which replaced one destroyed by
bombing in the Second World War. But in the
Middle Ages there had been yet another,
monastic, cathedral under the present precinct:
St Mary's, a massive building that was destroyed
by Henry VIII in the sixteenth century. Its east
and west ends can still be seen, but the layout
of its central portion is conjectural. Coventry
City Council invited Time Team to excavate this
area in advance of development - a last chance
to reconstruct the plan of the medieval
cathedral.
More about this programme on
the
Time Team website |
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