Time Team Excavation Site Hooke Court (Hooke)

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Tony: This is Hooke Court in Dorset, and we reckon that most of what you can see here dates to the English civil war in the mid-sixteen hundreds.

But there are clues that there was once something much older and grander here, take a look at this. You see this huge moat that is in the back-garden?

Now as far as I know a moat means a castle or a grand medieval house, so on this island there could be something here from the middle ages, maybe even from the time of William the Conqueror himself.

These days, Hooke Court is used as a school, and the teachers would love to be able to tell the kids more about its history. But you don't know very much about it do you Mandy?

Mandy Cooper: No, not very much at all, and we'd love you to find out more.

Tony: So, who is it that Mandy called in?

All children: Time Team

Tony: And how long have we got to find anything?

All children: Three days.

Tony: You think we will find anything under the grass JJ?

JJ: Yes

Tony: What sort of stuff

JJ: Brick walls and doors.

Tony: Yeah we always find brick walls, but not doors so often do we. Keep your fingers crossed.