Time Team Excavation Site Whitestaunton (Whitestaunton)

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We’ve come to the Blackdown hills in Somerset and i’m standing in the grounds of Whitestaunton manor, and at the bottom of these sculptured gardens and the beautiful lawns lies this muddy overgrown area and predictably this is what we’re interested in because underneath that greenery lies a 125 year old mystery.

In 1882 a series of walls along with fragments of mosaic floor and pottery and coins were discovered here and this place was designated a roman villa. But recently a young archaeology student has been doing some investigating here and she recons the records are all wrong. In fact so wrong that she thinks this isn’t a villa at all.

Is she right and if so, what is this place? As usual, Time Team have got just three days to find out.