Time Team S06E01 · Wedgwood's First Factory - Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent

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The Team are in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, to investigate what remains of Josiah Wedgwood's first factory and to discover what pottery he was making there. They find evidence of several centuries of potting and bottle kilns, including a time capsule of the pottery of Enoch Wood & Sons. Experimental archaeology: a replica creamware vase.

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1. 1 1. Wedgwood's First Factory - Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent1999-01-03 · 50mThe Team are in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, to investigate what remains of Josiah Wedgwood's first factory and to discover what pottery he was making there. They find evidence of seve
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4. 4 4. Cooper's Hole - Cheddar Gorge, Somerset1999-01-24 · 50mInvestigation, at the invitation of the cave's owner, the Marquess of Bath, to see if there is evidence of Palaeolithic human activity in the cave. This may be among the oldest hom
5. 5 5. Medieval Plympton - Plympton, Devon1999-01-31 · 50mIn the 12th century many towns were designed and laid out on regular lines. The people of Plympton believe there is enough evidence to plot the layout of the medieval town which su
6. 6 6. Tudor Dockyard - Smallhythe, Kent1999-02-07 · 50mLooking for evidence of a 15th century dock, the team are in Small Hythe. The dock was once next to the mile-wide River Rother but its location is now an overgrown field, ten miles
7. 7 7. Golf Course Roman Bathhouse - Beauport Park, Sussex1999-02-14 · 50mHistorian Guy de la Bedoyere asks the team to investigate the isolated ruins of a bath-house, discovered by Gerald Brodribb in the midst of dense Sussex woodland. Gerald has made a
8. 8 8. Bombers In Reedham Marshes - Reedham, Norfolk1999-02-21 · 50mTime Team team up with air crash investigators to discover what happened to two B-17 bombers which crashed with loss of all lives on board on 21 February 1944 into marshes near Ree
9. 9 9. Back To Turkdean - Turkdean, Gloucestershire1999-02-28 · 50mTime Team revisit a live dig from 1997, where they found a large Roman complex in a Gloucestershire field. But at the same time, geophysics recorded evidence of more buildings. And
10. 10 10. Field Cropmarks - Kemerton, Worcestershire1999-03-07 · 50mAn aerial survey of a Worcestershire field has revealed cropmarks leading to substantial Bronze Age finds. But Iron Age remains also exist. Time Team tries to sort it out. Local sc
11. 11 11. Ruined Norman Church - Bawsey, Norfolk1999-03-14 · 50mThis live dig centres on a ruined Norman church on a hill in Norfolk. This National Trust site promises to be the richest source of finds that Time Team have yet seen, with previou
12. 12 12. Montravers Estate (Part 1) - Nevis, West Indies1999-03-21 · 50mInvited by historian David Small, the team are on the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis, for a six-day dig to uncover the history of sugar production and slavery here. They are invest
13. 13 13. Montravers Estate (Part 2) - Nevis, West Indies1999-03-28 · 50mInvited by historian David Small, the team are on the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis, for a six-day dig to uncover the history of sugar production and slavery here. They are invest