Time Team

The Guerrilla Base of the King - Athelney, Somerset

In this first ever episode of Time Team, Tony and the team travel to Athelney in Somerset to investigate a series of hills (once islands in a bog) that became Alfred The Great last defensive positions after a series of losses to invading Viking forces. It is also the place Alfred began the great rally that saw him re-conquer most Wessex and laid the foundations of the nation that was to become England.

Series Cast

Gus Casely-HayfordSelf - Presenter

Natalie HaynesSelf - Presenter

Carenza LewisSelf - Field Archaeologist

John GaterSelf - Geophysicist

Stewart AinsworthSelf - Landscape Investigator

Helen GeakeSelf - Anglo-Saxon Specialist

Matt WilliamsSelf - Field Archaeologist

Derek PitmanSelf - Archaeologist