Time Team S18-E01 Reservoir Rituals (Tottiford, Devon)

The first stone henge discovered in Britain in a century would be reason enough for a big celebration. But there is a double bubble as Tony Robinson and his strong team of archaeologists celebrate their 200th dig.

The site is the bed of a Devon reservoir with a strange assortment of prehistoric remains. The reservoir has been specially drained, but diggers still have to spend three days wading through thick, sticky mud to piece together the history of thousands of years of rituals performed in this beautiful, secret valley high on Dartmoor.

The team slowly uncovers a network of monuments that suggest they have found a major prehistoric site. But the best discovery had to wait until the last day, when they dug up the remains of this stone well. It’s the perfect ending to an important milestone in the program’s history.

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