Plot: Digging up fields and car parks and back gardens is all very well, but how could Time Team pass up a chance to dig up a living room? The manor house in Nassington was purchased in a derelict state, and while restoring it, several massive post holes were investigated that are of a size and spacing to be a Saxon great hall. The pottery finds from the property suggest almost constant occupation from the Iron Age to the present, and the Ramsey Chronicle records that Cnut owned Nassington while king

Time Team - Season 11 - King Cnut's Manor - Nassington, Northamptonshire (Episode 10)
Episode Aired On:
Sunday, March 7 2004
20 years ago
Sunday, March 7 2004
20 years ago