Time Team - Season 17 Episode 5 The Massacre in the Cellar - Hopton Castle, Shropshire
Tony Robinson and the Team visit the remains of Hopton Castle in Shropshire. Although it's picturesque, it was the site of a series of gruesome battles that took place at height of the English Civil War, when a Royalist force laid siege to a small garrison of Parliamentarians inside the castle. The Team use contemporary accounts and the evidence from their own trenches to separate fact from propaganda and piece together a blow-by-blow account of these violent days in 1644. The dig immediately produces evidence of battle. Over three days the archaeology begins to build up a compelling story of how the defenders fought off two attacks, killing hundreds of Royalists, before finally succumbing to the greater numbers of their enemy.
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: More4, Channel 4, YouTube
Director: Tim Taylor
Cast: Gus Casely-Hayford, Natalie Haynes, Carenza Lewis, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake
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First Air Date: Jan 16, 1994
Last Air date: Apr 07, 2024
Season: 21 Season
Episode: 239 Episode
Runtime: 50 minutes
IMDb: 7.10/10 by 14.00 users
Popularity: 16.344
Language: English
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Corridors of Power - Westminster Abbey, London
A Saintly Site - Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides
Bridge over the River Tees - Piercebridge, County Durham
In the Halls of a Saxon King - Drayton, Oxfordshire
The Massacre in the Cellar - Hopton Castle, Shropshire
Potted History - Mildenhall, Wiltshire
Death and Dominoes: The First POW Camp - Norman Cross, Cambridgeshire
Something for the Weekend - Tregruk Castle, Llangybi, Monmouthshire
Governor's Green - Governor's Green, Portsmouth
Priory Engagement - Burford, Oxfordshire
There's a Villa Here Somewhere - Litlington, Cambridgeshire
Commanding Heights - Dinmore Hill, Herefordshire
Rooting for the Romans - Bedford Purlieus Wood, Cambridgeshire