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Hunting King Harold - Portskewett, South Wales
For the final episode of the 2008 series the team head to the village of Portskewett in South Wales to investigate a field which is intriguingly named Harold's Field. Local legend has it that King Harold built a hunting lodge there the year before he lost the Battle of Hastings. The field is a mass of big earthworks and historical documents do record Harold building a lodge somewhere round the village of Portskewett. Within minutes of digging, the team discover that the site was not confined to just Harold and the Saxon period, having been used since late Roman times until well into the Middle Ages.
Aired: Mar 30, 2008 Genre: Documentary MysteryCasts: Tony Robinson Phil Harding John Gater Stewart Ainsworth Mick Aston Helen Geake Victor Ambrus Francis PryorCreated By: Tim TaylorDuration: 50m Rating: 0 Country: United Kingdom Production:
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01: Gold in the Moat - Codnor Castle, Derbyshire02: Street of the Dead - Binchester, County Durham03: Bodies in the Dunes - Barra, Western Isles04: The Naughty Nuns of Northampton - Towcester, Northamptonshire05: Mysteries of the Mosaic - Coberley, Gloucestershire06: Blitzkreig on Shooter’s Hill - South London07: Keeping Up with the Georgians - Hunstrete, Somerset08: Saxons on the Edge - Stonton Wyville, Leicestershire09: Fort of the Earls - Dungannon, Northern Ireland10: From Constantinople To Cornwall - Padstow, North Cornwall11: Five Thousand Tons of Stone - Hamsterley, County Durham12: The Romans Recycle - Wickenby, Lincolnshire13: Hunting King Harold - Portskewett, South Wales