Time Team - Season 0 Episode 40 Dover Castle - Dover, Kent
Dover Castle has dominated the White Cliffs since it was built in 1180 by Henry II. But building it had nothing to do with defending Britain's shores; the story behind its vastly expensive construction is one of royal embarrassment and political prestige. It was the Millennium Dome of its day: vast, ridiculously expensive and built to show off the best we can offer. It looks like a quintessentially English castle, but is nothing of the sort; it's French to its foundations. It provides a fascinating insight into the medieval world. For years now, the castle has been empty, grey and dull: a shadow of its former self. But in 2008 English Heritage decided to undertake an extraordinarily bold piece of restoration. They planned to make over the main rooms of the castle to recreate them as they would have been in Henry II's time. It was a huge, ambitious project, bringing together historians, designers and around 150 craftsmen.
Year: 2026
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: Channel 4, YouTube, More4
Director: Tim Taylor
Cast: Gus Casely-Hayford, Natalie Haynes, Carenza Lewis, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake
Crew:
First Air Date: Jan 16, 1994
Last Air date: May 30, 2026
Season: 25 Season
Episode: 284 Episode
Runtime: 50 minutes
IMDb: 7.40/10 by 18.00 users
Popularity: 13.8296
Language: English
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Episode
Christmas Special – Much Wenlock - Much Wenlock, Shropshire
Christmas Special – Barley Hall - Barley Hall, York
The Mystery of Seahenge - Holme-Next-The-Sea, Norfolk
The Real King Arthur - Tintagel Castle, Cornwall
The Mystery of Mine Howe - Tankerness, Orkney
Time Team History Of Britain
Behind The Scenes At Time Team
Coventry’s Lost Cathedral - Coventry, West Midlands
The Island of the Eels - Ely, Cambridgeshire
Dinosaur Hunting - Dinosaur Belt, Montana, USA
The Big Dig in Canterbury - Canterbury, Kent
Londinium, The Edge of an Empire - London
The Wreck of the Colossus - St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly
Ten Years of Time Team
Hadrian's Well
Big Dig, The Hole Story - Canterbury, Kent
Sheffield Steel City - Sheffield, South Yorkshire
The Crannog in the Loch - Loch Tay, Perthshire, Scotland
The Ten Million Pound House - Ightham Mote, Kent
D-Day - Normandy
King of Bling - Prittlewell, Essex
Britain’s Lost Roman Circus - Colchester, Essex
Life on the Edge 1000 Years BC - Washingborough, Lincoln
Journey to Stonehenge - Durrington, Wiltshire
The Big Roman Villa - Dinnington, Somerset
Buried by the Blitz - Shoreditch Park, London
Big Royal Dig - Windsor Castle, Palace of Holyroodhouse and Buckingham Palace
The God of Gothic - Ramsgate, Kent
Britain's Drowned World
Jamestown, America’s Birthplace - Virginia, USA
Secrets of the Stately Garden - Prior Park
Codename: Ainsbrook - Thirsk, Yorkshire
The Real Knights of the Round Table - Windsor Castle, Berkshire
The Lost Dock of Liverpool - Liverpool, Merseyside
Swords, Skulls and Strongholds
The Lost World War I Bunker - Flanders, Belgium
The Mystery of the Roman Treasure
Henry VIII’s Lost Palaces - England
The Secrets of Stonehenge - Stonehenge, Wiltshire
Dover Castle - Dover, Kent
Nelson’s Hospital - Gosport, Hampshire
The Secrets of Westminster Abbey - Westminster Abbey, London
The Real Vikings
War of the Roses - Bosworth, Leicestershire
The Somme’s Secret Weapon - Mametz, Somme, France
Castle of the Saxon Kings - Bamburgh, Northumberland
Looking Underground
Boudica's Lost Tribe
The Way We Lived
Brunel's Last Launch
Searching for Shakespeare’s House - Stratford-upon-Avon
Secrets of the Saxon Gold
Rediscovering Ancient Britain - Ridgeway, Dorset
Britain’s Stone Age Tsunami
The Secret of Lincoln Jail
Lost Submarines of WWI
1066: The Lost Battlefield - Battle, East Sussex, England
The Madness of Bedlam - Bishopsgate, City of London
The Edwardian Grand Designer - Drewsteignton, Devon.
Britain’s Bronze Age Mummies - Low Hauxley, Northumberland, England
Secrets of the Body Snatchers
The Boats That Made Britain - Dover, Kent
Expedition Crew: Return to the Roman Sarcophagus (Day 1)
Expedition Crew: Return to the Roman Sarcophagus (Day 2)
Expedition Crew: Hidden City (Vlochos, Greece) Part 1
Expedition Crew: Hidden City (Vlochos, Greece) Part 2
Expedition Crew: Mortar Wreck
Digging Band of Brothers - Aldbourne, Wiltshire
Forest to Front Line | Time Team (Sherwood Pines) 2024 - Expedition Crew
The Archaeology of Operation Cobra (Normandy)
The Princely Burial
Mystery Mounds at Poverty Point
The Mystery of the Standing Stone | Time Team X Crew
Bringing Home Little Boy Blue
Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant (Dorset)
The Big Ancient Greek Dig | Time Team X Crew (Vlochos)
Return to The Princely Burial: The Sword in the Stones?
Broughton Castle: Secrets Within The Walls
The Ness of Brodgar: Uncovering the Heart of Neolithic Orkney
York
The Bone Caves - Alveston, Gloucestershire