Time Team s15 special34 - Codename: Ainsbrook

From: http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/2008/ainsbrook/index.html




Codename: Ainsbrook

A Time Team Special

First screened 14 January 2008





In late 2003 two metal detectorists were working in a field in Yorkshire. They found 'treasure' buried just beneath the surface ? a collection of Viking material next to a body. Although they had been detecting on the site for a number of years, during which time they had made large numbers of finds, nothing they had uncovered previously compared with this. They decided to share their discovery with archaeologists.