Time Team - Season 9 - Eps 13: Seven Buckets and a Buckle - Breamore, Hampshire
A Byzantine brass bucket was found during a 3-day live dig in a Saxon cemetery a year ago. Time Team returns to find out more about the people who lived and died here. Metal detectorists are called in to find non-ferrous metals, to complement Geophysics' magnetometer survey. They are joined by Anglo-Saxon specialist Andrew Reynolds, paleopathologist Alice Roberts and celebrity Sandi Toksvig. Sandi's ancestors were from Jutland, and Robin Bush argues that this whole area of Hampshire was actually occupied by Jutes before they were defeated by the Saxons under King Cadwalla in 686 AD. Ray Walton replicates a brass bucket, complete with inscriptions and silvering, from scratch. Osteoarchaeologist Margaret Cox tries to make sense of the burials including rare double burials – one of which uniquely has a child placed between two men. Finds include weapons and an exquisite enamelled belt buckle; and three more of the mysterious buckets, which all fit one inside the other.
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.
Cast

Gus Casely-Hayford
Self - Presenter

Natalie Haynes
Self - Presenter

Carenza Lewis
Self - Field Archaeologist

John Gater
Self - Geophysicist

Stewart Ainsworth
Self - Landscape Investigator

Helen Geake
Self - Anglo-Saxon Specialist

Matt Williams
Self - Field Archaeologist

Derek Pitman
Self - Archaeologist

Lawrence Shaw
Self - Archaeologist