Time Team: 1200 years ago on a stormy Hartlepool headland stood a thriving monastery. A community of monks and nuns, ruled over by a powerful Anglo Saxon Princess. Her aim was to spread the word of God, and to convert the pagans to Christianity. But less than 200 years later, the monastery had vanished and it’s remains lay forgotten for over a thousand years. Time Team, have come to Hartlepool in Durham once part of Northumbria which in those days stretched fromscotland to the humber [hence north humberia] to try and find the heart of this mysterious place. The site where her followers lie buried, and the church where Princess Hild presided.

Starring:

Carenza Lewis, Henry Chapman, Ian Powlesland, John Gater, Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Stewart Ainsworth, Tony Robinson, Victor Ambrus

Genre:

Documentary, History