Time Team - Season 4 - Eps 2: Mystery of the Cornish Skeletons - Launceston, Cornwall

Name: Eps 2: Mystery of the Cornish Skeletons - Launceston, Cornwall
Released: 1997-01-12
Rating: 3.6

1997-01-12 • 50 min • ⭐ 7.1/10

Filmed between 22 and 24 March 1996. A local landowner has discovered human bones while installing water pipes. It is known to be the site of a former leper hospital, and a major crossing between Devon and Cornwall. How much more can Time Team discover about it? Phil uncovers a complete skeleton which has received a Christian burial, and which Osteoarchaeologist Margaret Cox identifies as a young adult female. She also examines the bone fragments for signs of leprosy. Juliet Griffin makes a herbal poultice to dress the lepers' wounds. Robin Bush looks at the 13th century charter granted to the hospital.

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About Time Team

Title: Time Team

First Air Date: 1994-01-16

Last Air Date: 2024-04-07

Status: Returning Series

Rating: 7.1/10 (from 14 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 22

Total Episodes: 239

Network: More4 Channel 4 YouTube

Genres: Documentary, Mystery

Production Companies: Unknown

Synopsis

Time Team is a British television series which has been aired on British Channel 4 from 1994. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in layman's terms. This team of specialists changed throughout the series' run, although has consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding. The sites excavated over the show's run have ranged in date from the Palaeolithic right through to the Second World War.